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w.... cm &-llUipltial ADC (I) LOC of medical assistance, and did not contain an account of the death of the principal Physicians there, and the necessity of supplying their places ?—I am not aware that any physicians died there, and I am not aware that any demand was made for assistance, which was not immediately sent, except the Hospital Mates, which the Surgeon General could not possibly supply. I would add, that the letter of the Inspector of Hospitalsin Walcheren will state that, if called for. What was the obstacle in your judgment which made it impossible to give a sufficient supply of Hos pital Mates ?—There were not sufficient medical prac titioners in London willing to undertake the business. Do you know what efforts were- made to induce Hospital Mates to undertake that business ?—The ap plying to those who were not sufficiently qualified to have taken the duties of Hospital Mates on any other service, they were offered to go, and were admitted to go for that special service, but they were not in suffi cient number to answer the service. Were any additional inducements by pay or any other consideration of that kind offered,• to induce Hospital Mates to undertake that service ?—I believe not. Do not you know that there was a demand and a complaint of a want of medicine, which complaint was not removed, and the medicines required were not supplied am not competent to answer that question, as it does not pass through my office, bpi goes immediately through the Surgeon-General. • Have you any reason to believe that if a larger pay than usual had been offered, more Hospital Mates might have been procured ?—I believe not. What was the objection made by surgeons Who were applied to, to go to Walcheren ?-1 1 bose ob jections must have been stated to the Surgeon-Gene. ;al; I have nothing to do with that. Were you ever consulted upon the probable conse quences of retaining the Island of Walcheren after the accounts arrived of the increasing sickness ?—I never was. Do you happen to have understood that Govern ment had authorized the Surgeon-General to consi der that question, of the expediency of giving an in creased pay to Hospital Mates, with a view of pro curing a larger number ?—I never heard of that; the Surgeon-General can answer that question better. Was any report made to you officially in the capa city of Physician-General, or to your department, of the number of casualties which took place in this Islands of the Scheldt, from the sailing of the Expos dition till its return ?—Constantly, from the Inspector. Was any report made of the total number of ca sualties ?—A report was made weekly. What was the aggregate number ?—The deaths amounted to upwards of 1,800 in Walcheren to the middle of November. Did that include those killed in action ?—The number of 1,800 included those killed in action. What was the amount of those killed in actioa ? Without referring to .my documents, . I cannot possi bly answer that question. What number of those sent home s:ck, died in the hospitals here or elsewhere ?—Between thirteen and fourteen hundred. How long do you apprehend it will be before those who have been, infected with the disorder in question will be fit for service ?—lf the care is taken of them which is intended to be taken, they will be all fit for service again is May. Then I am to understand, it is net the nature of the Walcheren disorder to have frequent returns on the patient ?—Directly the reverse ; I meant to say, and do say, that they will have frequent relapses, but probably will recover by May. After the end of May, you think they will be safe from any return of the Walcheren disorder ?—lf they have no relapse from this time to May, I should ap prehend they will be fit for service by the end of May. Supposing :hey should have had a return between this time and May ?—Then it is impossible to say when they will recover. Are they not, generally speaking, liable to relapses between this and May ?—ln all probability they will be liable continually to relapses between this and May. Then those who shall have had a relapse, will not be eared by the end of May so as to be fit for ser vice ?—lt is impossible to answer that question ; it i. a nicre matter of opinion ; they may or may not be. 'sked - medical man, whether that is disorder ?—The general we relapses ; and if re- i the time will be pro- the Committee to under 'y the end of May is fit the field ?—if he has no id of May, I think those rice by the end of May. have any relapse, the service is uncertain ? the 1,800 mentioned, extent of the loss, either by - diseases contracted in no means, because of December, and those into the account; the ibers, and of 1,300 and Bth of November. that have died since the deaths are attributable to of Walcheren ?—Not its, which I have not by them. ?—I cannot state them any near sum ; I cannot :urns. you were perfectly ac the Walcheren fever by Pringle ; in your opi peculiarly worse than near the sea in that lati- land of Foulneu opposite marsh fever is . greater in place I am acquainted with, the army hi you, would precautions p-- soldiers from Walcheren service, in consequence of • am not able to state i. a mere matter of opinion ; the • You are asked as a medical net the general nature of the di: nature of the disorder is to have lapses to a considerable degree, tracted for a perfect recovery. By a perfect recovery, are the stand that a soldier recovered b: for active foreign service in the relapse between this and the end men will be perfectly fit fur servi Then supposing they should tune when they will be fit for se Perfectly uncertain. Do you mean to say, that t and the 1,300 is the whole exten the casualties of the field, or d the Island of Waicheren ?-13) many have died in the month of numbers are nqt yet taken int amount of 1,800 and odd numb odd numbers, go only to the 18t Can you trite the numbers tl 18th of November, whose deat diseases caught in the Island ithout referring to documents, me, but I could easily refer to Can you state them nearly ?. nearly, fur I do not know to at state them with any sort of gue You have mentioned, that y quainted with the nature of chi communications with Sir John nion is the nature of that fever it would be in any low land ne tude ; for :nstance the low lan in Essex believe the mars Walcherenthanany ether place except Batavia in' the East, Can you state kow many so are now disqualified from sera the disease contracted there that. In case the destittaticat of th dentially communicated to yo viscd ettraordinary precautio I • •••••UTIO434IOuT Ku. . ir 37- Have sou had any eaWatthflhatilketi blow iff considerable mortality pmailing ales who were upon that Expedition, 'wl last two or three weeks ?—None whatevei. - - When you knew what the destination of theiripedl tion was,namely,that it was gone to the island-OfWal cheren, did you then make any alieration in your medi cal arrangement, or make any representation upoathe subject ?—None ; as it was represented to us as only an Expedition for a few weeks, but that not officially. Did you consider the medical arrangement ade quate to an Expedition to Walcheren of a few weeks? —Walcheren being so near this country, it was not ne cessary to send out a later establishment than was sent out. Did you not conceive that the medical principle tole - acted upon was the removal of the sick to the hospi tals to be prepared in this country, rather than the accumulation of them in hospitals in Walcheren? No doubt, that was the best measure to have pursued, to have removed the sick to this country from Wal cheren. If there had been a mortality of the Guards em ployed on the Expedition to Walcheren, is it neces sary that such reports should reach you ?—No reports from the Guards are ever made to our department. You stated, that in consequence of the information you had received, you did not make any representa tion to Government :--from whom was that informa tion derived ?—I do not know ; as it was not official, we have no document to refer to. Upon so material a point, why did you act upon so loose information as that appears to have - been We did not act upon that loose information. Why did you omit to act—why did you omit •to make any representation to Government I—Because it is not out practice to originate any thing with us,' but to obey the commands we receive ; we are not Councillors. As Physician-General to the Forces, after the id. counts arrived of the increasing sickness in the Island . of Walcheren, you were not consulted by Govt.:Totem as to the fit remedies to be applied, or what DIMS] should be taken to obviate the increasing disorder ?- IFrom the 10th of September every exertion was made by Government that could possibly be made:to accommodate and' relieve ,the seek - at Walcheren, and those that returned to this country; both by, communication with the Army Medical Board, and in every way. Then the Committee is to understand, the first in struction given by •Government was subsequent to the 9th September ?—lt was upon the 10th, front the 10th to the 16th September that the first great sick ness appeared. No information reached you, that on the 17th of August 3,000 sick were found in Lord Chathatn's army ?—I believe that there is no document - lit the office to say, there was any cornmuniatimi prior to the 10th of September ; but I cannot answer that without examining the office-books. There was no communication made to you previ ous to the 10th of September ?—Not to me personally; the first I heard of it was the 10th of September, when I was ordered to Harwich. You have stated, that the better chance of reco vering the sick was by removing them from the Island' of Walcheren ; were you afterwards consulted by Lord Castlereagh, when he directed an inquiry to be mad on a suggestion understood to have been made by Monnet, the French General, to the French Go vernment, that nothing could be so injurious to the health of the sick as the removal of them from the Island of Walcheren did not know that there had been such a representation from Moms& You having given your opinion to Lord Castle reagh, that the patients should be removed from the Island of Walcheren, are you aware that a letter was written by his Lordship to Sir Eyre Coote, contain ing this passage, u It has been stated, that in a re presentation made by General Monnet to his Go. vernment, he had recommended that the of Walcheren should be very seldom clean , and that the sick should never be removed to another place with a view to recovery, it being . found by experi ence, that a greater number of the sick who were kept in the Island recovered there, than of those who were, with a view to their recovery, removed. I wish you to communicate this circumstance to Doctor Blanc; in order that the truth of k may be ascertained e' visa that ever communicated by Lord Castlereagh' to yon) —The only way I can answer.that question is, that had no communication with Lord Castlereagh upon the subject, but that if Monnet's opinion had been submitted to me,- I should have differed with hiCa, entirely. At the end of how long a period of time, after the return of the soldiers from Walcheren in apparent good health, has there ever been an instance of the symptom of the Walcheren fever displaying itself From ten to twenty-one days. No longer period has ever elapsed have never known it longer. You have been asked, why you did-not propose4fi awmentation in the Medical Establishment; was not your knowledge of the certainty of removal of the sick to hospitals in England a sufficient reason for not augmenting the Medical Establishment in Wakhe ren ?—Undoubtedly ; because the Inspector at that time declared, he did not want more asiistance of the higher class. "Do you consider, that men once of with a remittent fever, are more liable than any other men to have that disorder again ?—Undoubtedly, for a certain length of time. What length of time ?—The following spring, or even the following autumn. [The witness was directed to withdraw.}-41.diourned. TWENTY TEM:SAND POUNDS!!!—How many men would think themselves happy in the possession of such a sum, and yet neglect the opportunity afforded by the present Lottery, of pin ing it at the risk of a few pounds, which, laid oat in the purchase of a Ticket, at Swirl. and Co.'s Fortunate Office, Lied, on Wed nesday next, produce an independent fortune. In consequence of the very extensive orders HORNSBY and 1 Co. daily receive from all parts of the Coreatry and the metre polis,they venture to assure the rile, that there is not a salt . dent number of Tickets to shoes who hose Not purchased t• and they father add, that the her *an theta mks that be has very few dckets an hand; nob not half the Ned 'tack which is always constunsd seer this day. Hous er, Ind _ . 1 . Urge lk*. !mu , I. • .•••••L.J••••••••• . . * 9 ll -. 1( A • - Mai or Te. ATE o t cl oct. s pss Com Coos. fr ei = i t s. l—••& Ilsoducoi SSl—Omion S M. to as. Letters Our Readers may recollect, that from Cape of Good Hope of the 7th December, announced the, - escape of the French frigate la Canonic* the Isle of France, with immense treasme on the fruit of numerous captures of British vessels in the Fosstem Seas. They will rejoice VALIANT learn, that that ship .was captured by the man of war, Capt. Bum, on Saturday last; going into L'Oriest, and yesterday arrived safe at Spithea4 She had seventy.one passengers on board. Dispatches were this day biodght to the Secret Of State's Office, by Brigadier-General COLA!, &NO Lisbon. The Genend arrived at Falmouth infisday, in the Wild Boar brig, after a passage twelve days. The Wild Boar' has also brought Mail from Lisbon : she left there the Princess - beth and Princess Charlotte packets. Letters front Valentianf the 23d, and from of the 26th December,. have attired. They a statement before received that the French ha , oetrated into chi province olValacia, from the capital of which they were . tsmt only thirty miles. farce consisted of 24,000 men detached . from the of 4rragozi, that entered the territory by the road a, which city they occupied, and where they • flitted some depredations, encountering no opposition. King Joann had set out from Madrid-to place! at the head of this division of the French army, what became of him afterwards is not ascertained. 'probability certainly is, that he proposed to advance 'the city of Valencia, and in the present circumste 'of Spain, it will give us no anxiety to discover French have abandoned their former policy concentration of their forces, and have extended -armies to the remote districts of the kingdom. have satisfactory intelligence of the means of employed around the city of Valencia, under rection - of CARRO, the brother of the Marquis ROMANA ; and if the French should continue 'march to the coast Eastern, it will not be the time that the Valencians have contended with waders : it will be recollected that they expelled 'French, under Mozwer, from their plains, who glad to escape from their pursuers. It is said, that four Members of the Provincial Junta of Valencia have been discovered to tars, and they will no doubt meet with the _ ment they deserve. We are glad to find that the distention that has subsisted between the . we have named, and the Supreme Central Junta, temper of conciliation is manifested by the and we have reason to believe that at the Coirrentim i of the Cortes all disputes between these politico bodies will be superseded by the plenary authority that assembly. It will be recollected, that previous to the battle Talavera, the Spanish General, Cuasr*, was of want of promptitude and energy in support British army under the command of Lord W : TON ; and that after the victory obtained over . French forces by his Lordship, instead of advancing, he retreated. It has since F een ascertained, • whole of the plans which had been concertel by WELLINGTON and General CUBSTA, to be pursued titer the battle, had been divulged to the French ' nerd Vicroa, by a Spanish Officer in the full deuce of CUESTA, and who was consulted and acquainted by him with every intended movement the united forces then in Spain. That officer ' 'entitlement, and his conduct will very soon, we be held up to the general execration of the people 'the Peninsula. Private letters from Bourdeaux mention circum- Stances respecting the reinforcetheats for the . armies in the Peninsula, on which the printed nals preserve the mast profonnd vacua.. Every hone in that city kieroirdespelig lobberyi ocrtheirprogress to Spaiti! viit`the utmost letiVity prevails Awe tlf the Garonne; to accelerate. the march troops destined to the Pyrennees. The corps Bourdeaux most admired was the Polish regiment the Lance, distinguished by that name from the • pons they bear. A letter from Bayonne mentions, that 40,000 men, of a very gallant appearance, passed through that place to enter Spain by files adjacent to the Bay of Biscay, and many , ' WIMP daily expected to take thi same direction. was supposed, that a considerable number of tints had followed the, route of Bellegarde, Mediterranean side of the same chain of mountains, and that the reinforcements of the French in the whole, would won eueed 200,000 men. Since writing the above, we have received Papers to the 2d, and Dutch to the 7th iast. The Mostikur of the Slit, contains a distorted :lotion of the King's Speech on the meeting , ~with very long notes on.particular pastors, one of which appeared in the Sum of yestactikt It consists of remarks on the conduct of the the maPatmlunt a ;be hie and with tlepess *the seal WI Orin , 401411114 ; ..: . • •, iiiseir frilligsVbe waft de admetse. by aye imPos to e t e n i n i strafton • i n t h i 0 pardeog whit they lama twallal, heeliMa I; orbited slobadaiag a dart dale Two illankail 06011 tO Viralchalino lands Iligagy, arlicli will ilittattroll,l4 Pe ustria, Swedes, a. Day) st elibrAr or dick Rata Ln lit St. MargaraeslßlN Pone* "alp off , sift ill 10 v•••• '''s ranaiadr•kr- lee•es A'arges PIRINAT hi t 7 r . reMtrepoßb tti_lisiOrn ttshis dominion: )1 , . . .-, _• y a , • • ''' .ot the Sifds inst. Louis de Narbonne has been .• • dm . ;ed Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Erm a ., ~ . to the Court of Bavaria. des. p. , • :.. Upwards of 5000 men passed Pont a Marum • , Sees the course of last month. Since the Ist of thismoni , • b Doom ed army of the Dike of Abrantes has been ma r • ..., , . ere f r om through the department of Lander : the ho rse 1 board, ~cached to that 'army amount 'alone to 16,3% m et IC trading - 0 According to letters from Madrid of the 12th •,, A 4 joie* to • the 'tench armywas then in full motion, and rea r . 72ALtAxr through Sierra Morena against Seville. The I , e; es cm inis e. quarters .off his Majesty, King Joseph, were at , • - f arh•art. znagro, iii: La Mancha. ..: t ;... • • • We h ave al so received Spanish papers the - ie to i . ,p r • The Seville Gazette, of the leth ult. contilni 132 kouth o ecretary rand Portuguese to the 25 th ult. :izmrr proclamation from the Supreme Junta for ttansf err i o i: stage of its meetings to the Isle of Leon, or Cadiz, whe re 1 slight a • Was to assemble on the Ist of February, in cord er , to te r ;s Eliza- -be at hand and confer with the Cones, who, as was befgre known, are to meet in that Isle on th e 1 of March. The Spanish and Portuguese Papers are filled a . Murcia It 'confirm LI 'confirm'-details descriptive of the military .positione of _ Flare Pe - French and Spanish armies. ' Bbtir *Atifin motion e capital all.directions, and some great blow is daily et, Their to be struck by the foriner. The Sierra Morena , F he army been strongly fortified, and the passes are . vic ad rtf•Se - inaccessible. It would appear, however, that the lei corn - 1 operations of the French army are confined to , b r e j i Positior• Low Countries, and few apprehensions are entr t t a • I !hirrtself . ed of any attack upon the fisAesses of the Sierra, my, but the Spaniards have given leave to the - . led- The who defended the passes to return to he ,• . - vance to ra h employments for a short period. tutancei - c s., 7t h a a t h e Intelligence is said to have reached England os y of thethe Cape, that the disturbances in India were i 4 only terminated, but that those unhappy ;ran led t h ei r 4rad been closed by a general amnesty. The ~. • n. We army, it is,likewise reported, had presented a .. ' defence ful memorial to the Supreme Govensteneat, in '. their grievances were stated, but in which they i claimed every intention of adopting any other • .. t e r s the e di- than that of humbly submitting them to the con ' "le their ration of the Governor in Connell. The the first in the late reneontre were supposed to have been -, h t h e i rs . numerous than they appeared to be, by the ~ d i ed • the which had been published ; but it was considered , t suable that the whole affair should be consigned eh° W e re the earliest oblivion ; and that upon this principle, . or no further details of the circumstances which • • rovincial ' ceded the restoration of tranquillity would be ' f be Mi_ before the public. - punish. • Essest Et.mersorr.-At the close of the Poll - • • day, the number stood thus-- bat after HoUltiou . . - teas be lota ... BuliGenrss - . p 696 - , Map*, . ...1,4171 jUnta f . . 2 Tuesday two Companies belonging to the 361 ll former, timent of Foot, passed through Cheltenham, on ' invention march' from Liverplool for Battle Barracks.-- . political were employed in the late Expedition CO Walcieren. horit . o f 'At a Common Council held yesterday at Gila. ' ' hall, it was carried by a majority of three, on a divi lion, ail That no Address or Petition sha ll tempi battle of dered or altered, atter having been agreed to by the ; accused Conrt," and ordered to become a standing order. t In of ,),_ • Coax -Maam, MARK-LANs, as. 9.-There ars AA BIM - ' fresh arrivals of Wheat to-day, but considerable supplies oo land, Tzurso- and sales in general at little variatietiowEarley in plenty, and excepting fine-. Malt and White Peas continue to Scituate 1 uver the but little -beans of the two kinds likewise-New Ticks Ws. to ; vancing, M. per quarter-there are short supplies of Oats, and alit tied* ; that the 4 d ea rer-ma at last Prices- PLYMOUTH, FEBRUARY 7. by Lord' The American brig, which got oa shore yesterday, was pt elk e pursued with considerable damage to herbettem , and is ge oe istoDetk IS ill confi- _ unload. French lugger boos& be yesterday by tbe Nowt , .nth ue "vas la antde Hunebourg, of d pas aid $.5 ttlelle-A, WA ti . called the Matilda, arrived this afternoon from the Salim wii ‘' a the Captain and crew of the Mary Falmouth pellet (WO' d made into Malta), together with the malls from the Muilwremenk !ment 9f ter is in the Captain was not permitted to land, but old Tieya Wilk P c w in r ai e ls ck o e n d a f the Vfaltillaoceranhterinebovt ssel mewiara homeward-bo und ; from the u st we hear, sstraits• Captains passengers, and crew saved by the Metads- DEAL ; IEBRUARY s. eople of Arrived the Rigs packet, WSITI, from the Bruit; spa the .:1 *umber armed ship, with a fleet front Falmouth, and are sailed for the River.-The exsar, Captain Fowsia; from Jamaicaterect 1 circum- on shore last night among the rocks near the south Foreland, and +. French ats feared will be lost.-Wind S.W. a GIAMIND, Frs. a. Arrived vie Admiral Caper,. Vet' ban, from Demerara; General Miranda. Fuer, front St. De' . 1 ed Jour- mitten; Helena, lemnseson, Malta, Damp'', from Lisbon; b. . solution, Masterson, and Riga Pack.it, White, from the Brasil'; • Mule 'sillhe Larking, —, from BengaL Sailed Haddon, **SI progress *lndia; Richmond, Kingston, for Madeira ; and the John awl !panels,—, for New Provi dence. , ; 911 the hof the At Palermo, the Doke of Orleans, to the Princess Affleir".._* corps at and invent of • •seydeelbser Doc of the on Kin tile an elte u orl ef N : p e i rlsst aari • at i d e ts 'fiz a the wee- ova Wh b lSOws lest Mite and the greatest neagnilleence evert de- kneed y ones of fetes and entertainments ► whe re da 1 PloloAL mime may eventually lead towards the manna , tenuous, theft:lom of *pies to its legitimate Sovereign. The Mes s i ice, had Aseelle,. Dow Duchess of Orleans, hail completed her twenty. the de. seventh year. DIED. ion. It Naval Hospital at Haar, from fever. 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