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r FIFTH REPOTT, XXAMINE INTO TIM PUBLIC EXP,ENDITI:RE.; ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT his day brat ?Vl:fished, price :ft 6d. in extra bairdS4 On 1 fine wove for t rap octavo, neatly pressed, and rnbakildtl With an deo= ft ontispiteb, dcligned by Burner, audergraVed Ehtlet, THE UNIVERSE I A rhansophical Poem. ; itia tended to restrain the Pride of Man, and to exalt the wiS dom and I;f.seitiness of the C•eatnr. By HENRY BM: VR, F. R. S. P. S. A. With Additions and Ex7"mytnry Notes, by A. CROCKER. 1* present Editor has made such additions to the original Wolk in the Text and Notts, as the life imptoveinents in Astronomy and Philosophy appeared to justify; and, confident of its bent cial tendency, thus preterits it to the Ini t iated for B. Crosby arid Co. ; and i onginan, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, London ; and I. I'nnle, 'Taunton. 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What 're have hitherto stated is applicable to to Medical establishment of the British troops only • the foreign troops in our servicewehave a distinct IVledi cal Establishment, which must, therefore, be separately considered: This, it appears, was first formed in November, 795, on the recommendation of Colonel Negbitt, at that time Inspector General of the Foreign Cinps.— The recoarimendation is stated to have been founded on the propriety, that they who had the care and ma nagem,:nt of the sick belonging to these corps should be acquainted with their language, customs, consti tutional habits, and peculiar diseases. _ _ _ By the regulations and instructions of the above date, it was directed, that the establishment should he under the immediate military superintendence of the' Inspector General of the Foreign Corps ' • and that it should consist of a Physician General, described .as Inspector and Director of all Foreign Hospitals, two Surgeons, three Assistant Surgeons, eight Hospital "Nietes, an Apothecary and an Assistant Apothecary ; with an administration consisting of a Comptroller, a Secretary, a Cashier, a Chaplain, two Clerks, a Store keeper, a Steward, and a Matron ; and it was to be augmented or diminished according to circumstances and necessity : Colonel Nesbitt, the Inspector Gene ral, was to recommend the Chief of the Staff, why was then to recommend to the Inspector General proper qualified persons for the other situations. The duties of the Chief of the Staff, as stated shortly by himself, ate, to act as principal Medical Officer to the General Hospital, where he attends every week, or more often if required ; to inspect all Regimental Hospitals (of Foreign Corps) in Eng land ; to provide qualified medical of:fleets for all the foreign corps ; to examine all foreign recruits and invalids, with the particular injunction from Govern ment to ascertain-whether they arc really Germans ; arid he states, that the number of recruits examined by him, from '2sth December, MS, to '24th December, 1506, is fourteen thousand three hundred and forty one, and the number of invalids four hundred and ninety-eight. In 1800, a contralti over the Chief of the Foreign Medical Staff was given to the Army Medical Board, with whom he was directed to correspond on all sur gical and medical matters respecting the Foreign Hospital service, without going thmugh the Office of the Military Inspector General of - the Foreign C ups. He was afterwards directed to propose to teat Board the candidates whom he recommended for medical appointments. Both he and the Purveyor were ordered to follow, in every particular, the regii. latioes established fir the British General Hospitals ; and they were to transmit to the Board, through the agent fur the foreign corps, their monthly accounts aid vouchers, for examination ; and to draw (sii the agent for foreign coVs for such sums as might be requisite. The appointment o f Milit ar y Inspector General of Foreign Corps was: di!;continued in December, 1 KW, end a Deputy leepececr of the Foreign Depot at Lymington was appoinuad in his place. But Doctor Versturme, the Chief of the Foreign Medical Staff, staur e that he has new the Medical superintendance and inspection of all the foreign corps in the British service, all hough they may not be under the imme diate military direct of the Comineectieg Offieee of the Depot. In January, ISM, the Army MF3i i:11 P(1,711%, undertook, en the proposition of Doctot. Ver. suirme, the examination of the candidates for medi cal situations in the foreign corps. The same rank, denomination, and pay, were then given to Cie Fo-: . reign Hospital Staff as to the nelical Staff in similar situations in the British army aad the Chief of the Medical Staff v: as, from that tinaa styled the "Oki * Physician Inspector oithe Foreign Hoipiaels." From Ductnr Versturreele ztatt..mer.: of die el.:- .roirtcri INTXLLIGENCE. • .. : 'hlishment of Officeis, tlerlis e .ite . d gerdatite entploye44 - I at the General Fnreign ilospital,.. from December. IgOli to tedeehber s le''ale . given in the Appendix, it appears that alert it at Wee. nt a Genera; Hospitea at Elutg, for the invalitit of - ill Ott fore** . totps $ arid a small establishment at Lymington, of a Surgeon.. and two Hospital Mates, conducted on the footing of a Regimental 'Hospital; for the service of tlie re cruits belonging to the foreign corps, the number of which is said to be regularly from 500 to 800 men, together with from 40 to 60 officers. The Genes'al Hospital Establishment at Eling has varied, aewe learn from Doctor Verstutme, according to the state of the foreign corps in entr service. In 1798 it wail reduced ; in 1799, en the arrival of the Dutch bri e , gade, it was increased ; and daring the last peace, it Was again redticed, But in October 1805, when the Hanoverian legion was ordered on duty in Germany, the Medical Staff under Doctor Versturme's superin teudance was again considerably augmented ; more • with the view, however, as it appears, of being at tached to the legion, than for the purpose of the Hosel pital Establishment at Eling. 1 The statenient to which we have before refereed, ,;hews, that the establishment of Medical Officers at Eling, from December 1803 to December 1806, has heed low, compared with that of the British General Hospitals; yet, from the same statement, it appears that the number of patients admitted during this pe riod of three years was 11101, whilst we find that only 112`2 were admitted into - the York hospital eluritig the same period. It is a singularity in the establishment of servants at Eling, as elven in the statement, that no Matron, head Nurse, Nurses, or Sempstresses, are employed in this General Hospital. This has been a saving to the Public, as Dector Versturme calculates, front December 1796 to December 1806, of above two thousand four hundred pounds. The pay of the officers on the Hospital Establish ments at Eling and Lythington, including that of Doctor Versturme, as appears from the different quarterly accounts furnished to us fur the year 1804 and 1805, was somewhat under two thousand five hundred pounds. For the present year, IW7, it will he less ; for, on the 21th of April last, the establish ment at Fling consisted of only a Deputy Purveyor, ate Apothecary doing the duty of a Staff Surgeon, an Hospital Maw, and a4.7lerk or Storekeeper. The view which we have given of this Hospital Establishment certainly entitles the management of it to much cornmeadation, in comparison with the ere temporary management of the British General Hos pital: ; as does also the controul over the expences of the hospital ; notwithstanding, we consider Doctor Versturme's statement as an incomplete representa tion of those expences. Doctor Versturme infers from the returns and accounts for the years 1805 and 1806, transmitted to us, that the petients, during this period of two years, were subsisted at about ninepcnce three farthings per diem each ; but it does not appear - in • what mode he has formed his calculation. Our statement, prepared from the same documents, shows, that if the whole cost of the subeistence during this period be divided by the total number of servants fnd patients subsieted, the expence of each servant Ind patient per diem would be about eight-pence farthing; and that, if the sante sum was divided by the number of patients only, the expence of each would be eleven pence three farthings per diem ; but if the charge for the servants wages, their subsistence, and the con-_ tingencies, were added, ae they ought to he, to the. cost of the patients subsistence, the expence then of each patient in the Eling Hospital Would be about seventeen pence per deem, during the years 1803 and 1806. It ought not to be overlooked, also, that in these two years, a considerable supply o f porter, wine, sugar, vinegar, soap, barley, rice, &c. were [ received at the Eling Hospital from the Porchestee Castle deeot, the cost of which is not included in the trims; nitted account's. From our statement; a conclusion also may be drawn respecting the number 1 of servants and orderlies employed at the Fling Hos pital during the above two years, whieb is deserving of consider ation. The number actually employed. , during this period may be ascertained by dividing the entente of days subsistence by 7;l0; the number of days in those years, and the number of patients being ascertainett in the same way, the result gives the average number of attendants and orderlies to .have been 161, end of patients 37t, or nearly one servant. l to two ea tients. . . We have before stated, that the pav of the Foreign l Hospital Etablishnient, including that of Doctor; Versturnte, was nearly two thousand five hundred', pounds ii aring the years 1804 and 1805. These views, therefore, of the actual expence of the main tenance of the patients in the Fling Hospital, and of'' the great , lisproportion of the establishment ,of sere smuts to the number of patients, notwithstanding that no women were empineed, will sufficiently support our recommendation that the Eling General Hospi tal, as well as the remaining British General Hospi tal:, should be managed on the regimental plan.— For we hall shew hereafter, that the patients so ma naged may be maintaine,d, including the expences of. servants and the contingencies, under ten-pence per diem each ; and that although it is frequently found the number of patients in a Regimental Hospital equals the average of those for the last two years in the Fling Hospital, yet the usual attendants are only a Serjeant, a Nurse,.and an orderly man. But at all DUBLIN POLICE. events, the recommendation contained in Doctor Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY moved the second Versturtne's letter is certainly deserving of much_ at- reading of the Dublin Police Bill. tention. At present, there are two Medical Este- Mr. SHAWE and Mr. J. BERESFORD opposed hlishments belonging to the foreign corps ; that at the Bill, inasmuch as it trenched upon the Charter of Fling, which we have been noticing, and another at the City of ,Dublin. . ~ . Lymington, which is conducted on the regimental, Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY only requested plan.. Doctor Versturme proposes that the establish- Gentlemen would not oppose the second reading. of Intent at Eling should be removed to Lymington t the Bill now, but suffer it to go to a Committee, in or [ this, he.says, would be a saving of above one thou- j der to have it. put into a definitive shape, for the par sand pounds per annum, in the pay of the persons et- 1 pose of being transmitted to Dublin for*the consider tached to that hospital. It would be necessary, he I ation of the parties concerned. ' There would be time admits, to erect some new buildings for the purpose enough to discuss the Bill in its future stages. • at Lvmington : but. he thinks, that if a temporary The CHANCELLOR of the *EXCHEQUER • building were erected, the expence of it would be co , - and Mr. GRATTAN both spoke to the same effect. vered b y the saving in the esteblislament, added to Sir JOHN NEWPORT said, it was on all hands that in the rent of the present hospital huildings sat I agreed, that a Police Bill for Dublin was necessary ; Fling and Lyritingtnn. If What Doctor Versturine .1 and - however highly he might be disposed to respect hes proposed in the letter alluded tonvere adopted, $ charters in general, he protested against the idea that there would be a farther saving in the establishments :rile Legislature should be bound up by the terms of (as we have since learnt from Doctor Versturme) of. any charter to decline all interference in matters of ti!e salaries of . one Barrack Master and a Barrack :Police, where it appeared that every thing done un- Serjeant. The propriety, however, of this recom- • der a charter was totally inefficacious. If the Magis reendationemust depend on the intentions of Govern- • trates of Dublin, appointed under a charter, neglected neat, in respect of the continuance of the foreign their duty for a long series of years, were the citi corps in our service. -0 1 b, continued.) . zens of Dublin for ever to suEer under a bad Police, • • PARISI MAKCH IS. By 3111 rittperial decree of the day befOre yesterday/ caree is established, to which is the of iupervising public Instruction through the whole French empire. The following is the oath to be taken by the new Nobility : • " I swear to be faithful to the Emperor and his dynasty; to be obedient to the constitution, laws, and institutiona of the Em pire ; to serve his Majesty :it a goal, upright. 2nd faithful sub ject ; to educate my children in the same feelings of fidelity and obedience, and to march in defence of my country as soon as its territory shall be threatened, or as his Afajaty drall ro to de army." Further, a Council has been established for the sealing of titles, consisting of three Senators, two Counsellors of State, one Attorney-General, and one Secretary-General. The expences of this Council are to be discharged out of fees which persons are to pay. for their patents of Nobility. KONINGSEER C., MARCH R. Our Court has published the following de-laration: " Koningsberg, March 6. " His [Loyal Majesty the King of Prussia, our most gracious Sovereign, has been solicited by both imperial Courts of Paris and St. Petersburgh, consistently with the system of the other powers bf the Continent, and the declaration .against England, to extend the same measures against Sweden, which have been taken against England, on account of her fresh aiEance with that power. In imitation of the declaration issued by the Emperor of Russia on the 10th (ithil of February in this year, his Majesty has accor dingly P 010144 relations with on' -Jon, and commands all in of under hint, under the penalty of severe puni4istient, to refrain from all comMunity . • r intercourse whatever with.Swc den. In pursuance of this, from the present moment, •and till farther or ders, all Prussian harbours shall be utterly closed against Swe dish vessels ; Prussian vessels shall no longer be situ into Sweden, neither shall Swedish or neutral ships or wares; Which . tome frou Sweden, be admitted Into Prussian harbours: l A meeting of the States, (viz. Parliament) of East Prussia: was held on the 2d of February, and dis solted on the rth of the same month, in order to consult on the means of relieving the country from the consequences of the disasters it had endured.— The owners of land, not proprietors, were called to the meeting, so that the diet consisted of 0 Noblo, and 13 Civic Deputies. COPENHAGEN, MARCH 14. Our Court has published in the Courtin: a list of the foreign troops which arc marching into Denmark. They consist of two French, one Spanish, and one Dutch division, constituting a force of 32,870 men, and 6191 horses. His Serene -Highness the Prince of Ponte Corvo, who commands this army hi chief, is expected here to-morrow; his head -quarter.sare to he on the Fredericksberg. .His Highness receives a guard of honour, and the military honours given to a reigning Prince Yesterday al Elsinenr, by heat of drum, all corn , munication with Swedea was forbidden on pain of death: CONSTANTINOPLE, FEB. 6. Intelligence has been received here not only of the honourable reception of the French Ambassador Ge neral Gardanne, at the Court of Persia, but also of the beneficial effects of his first riet,rociation. It is, for instance, affirmed, that the ancient treaty between France and Persia has been renewed. These tidings, which are confirmed by various letters received here, have enticed several .French mercantile houses, which were settled at Constantinople, to establish themselves in Persia. :pARLIANENTARr PROCEEDINGS., HOLISF or LORDS, MARCH 39. ....... _ . . Several Bills on the table were forwarded in their respective stages. Sir JACOB ASTLrY, Mr. CALCRATT, and several other Mem bers of the House of Commons, brought up some private Bills, which were read .a first time. The hearing of the Apnea's respecting the Roxburgh Estates was, on the motion of the Lord Chancellor, fixed fot Friday the Bth of April.Adpurned till to-morrow (this day). HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Chairman of the Christchurch Election Committee report ed their decision, that the Right Hon. George Ruse and-W. Stur ges Bourne, Esq. had been duly elected, and that the petition of the pt•titioners was frivolous and vesatious.' Petitions were presented tram the inhabitants of Wandsworth, Battersea, Knightsbridge, Pimlico, and Kennington, in faVour of the Bill for erecting a Bridge over the Thames, near Vauxhall.... -Referred to the Committee on the Bill. The Committee ou the Donnegal Election Was postponed to the of The Itsukerpen.' Allowance Bill was presented and read the first time. • The Indi-tment Bill was reported, and ordered to be engrossed; as was the t )rders .n Council Indemnity Bill. Commit!. ed the Irish East India Trade Regulation Bill ; to be reported to.;:norrow. Read the third time, the Irish Cotton and Bark Export Prchi 'Atkin MlL—Passed, and ordered to the Lords. Mr. EAS'I'ER moved, that the House do on to-morrow, re• solve into a Committee, to consider of the eitpediency of allow ing the export of Wool to Ireland, on bond for the due landing I thereof. MILITARY MEDICAL BOARDS , Mr. CAI.CRAFT observed, that there had been a Report from the Commissiorcrs of Military Enquiry recently laid on the from which it appeared that some gross and flagrant abuses 14dbeexi detected in the Military Medical Department t and Le now rase for the purpose of asking the Right Honourable Gen tleman opposite to him (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) whe ther any measures had yet been adopted on Ot 'subject by Go vernesent ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER answered, that the .übject had by no means escaped the attention of Govern ; meet, but there had not yet been tur.e to take any effectual mea -1 lures upon it. and have no remedy from the cause the present Magistrates a charter ? Perhaps there was dotninitans so crowded trates with so little advantage if this was the case, could the be denied, of some Legislative fectually Maintaining the pea, lives and properties of its inl the Bill did no more than put the present Police system, it and desirable. Dr. DUIGF.NAN spoke tered rights of Dublin and its with which the Bill certainly s lowing Government to appoint of merely approving them when poration. He would agree Bill to ameliorate the Police of that it ought to be on a priuci the charter, The CHANCELLOR said, that according to the . ceived, if the Government ha, with the charter as to appoint sides those chosen under t 1 have been no peace or security for its inhabitants. It was those additional Magistrates (and noethe Miler..i men, or other branches of the chartered muni c ip a li ty ) who were foremost on all occasions in oxkiag out and apprehending dangerous offenders. The discussion was at length terminated by the it terference and obseWatinn bi the SPEAKER, foe ded upon a Standing Order of the House, whieh quires, that in proceedings upon private Bills, lit to be the subject of contest, (and this was precisely such a nature) twenty-one clear d,.ys should be . lowed between the first and second readinq, of Bill, in order that all parties cone: reed rnivit be apprized. The House, however, might dilpc..roe its own Standing Order in this case, and allow the se cond reading of the Bill, upon the full understanding that in some other stage of the proceeding en the Bill, far instance, between the committal and the third reading, twenty one days should be allowed, in order to give the parties concerned full intimation of its ob jects. As the case, he said, was novel, perhaps it would be more regular for some Hon, Member togive notice of a motion for suspending the Standing Order on a future day. Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY acceded to the suggestion, and gave notice of such motion for to. morrow. —Adjourned. toufl- 1 re*: Adr, al such THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. THURSDAY. MARCH 31. full/ tTit& PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. : Consols, money, 6441—f0r April acc. 6411—Orni= 3:: pre, Navy 5 per Cent. 97—Exchequer tills, ss pre. . • PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. . s per Cent. Cons. 64 ti Imperial s per Cent. 641 5 per Cent. Navy 96 Ditto Ann. 71 15-'6th. • laths Stock 1714 Ev.. Bills, par ss. fr. z-- India Bonds, 2s. ss. ills. English Tickets, fill. Ss. South Sea Stock 69t - Cons.for ace. 64 t We have received further particulars of the Ne gotiation between France and Denmark, respecting the equipment of a &et of .French‘ vessels to be manned by Danish sailors. ISosaiiJaitre made the first overtures, and proposed that the required num ber of Danish Mariners of every rank, from the Ad mirk to the cabin-boy, for twenty sail, of the should repair to the several ports cf France, and navi gate them home; but they were still to remain in the service of France. This however was flatly refused, even by the Government of Denmark; and the Da nish Officers and men openly refused to fight under any other than the Danish flag. Measures were then taken to render the project as little repugnant as possible to the national feelings of the Danes. It was proposed that the vessels should be sold to Den mark, and should proceed from the ports of France to Copenhagen. Under such circumstances, it is highly probable that the treaty will be finally coin pleted, and that means will be found to gratify the sense of resentment which the Danes feel against this country, without offending their notions of national independence and honour. The contents of some interesting dispatches inter• cepted upon the last Russian Courier, from Count ROMANZOFF, at Petersburgh, to the Russian Amtal sador ALOPEM at Stockholm, have been made public. They will be read with surprize by all who feel for tte dignity and probity which ought to at , tach to Imperial Power; nor, after a perusal, will it require a prophetic spirit to foretell the degradatim that awaits a Potentate who can lend his authority to tea such machinations. No. 1, is a dispatch from Count ROILSSZOFF to M. PI Atorrts at Stockholm. The Count states, that he understands 'Baron ARMFELDT is to have a .principal command in the Swedish army ;' that in consequence of the treatment he received from the King of Siu• DEN, while serving in Pomerania; it is net probable he can be well affected to his Majesty or his Go'` • ment ; and if such should prove to be the fact, it • Would be most desirable to fix the General in the in. terest of Russia. He, therefore, would recommend 'to his Excellency to take measure s to that end ; but be cautioned him before he proposed the question ill direct terms, to sound well the General's disposition, and. inquire how his character stood in the public' opinion. If the General inclined a willing ear to him, he was to be careful to flatter his ambition, and talk of high reward ; but the Minister was, above all things, to be mindful not to commit himself in writ. ing, or otherwise, before he should be certain of inclination to catch at the bait. " BaronAmema r," observes the Count, " is a Fin by birth, and therekre the more likely to hearken to your propotl." In he . 2, from the same t o the same, the Ca': r the sr ° likar 00 41er WWI Ca i n -I 40 2 00.1:2 stela to his . • the in F l 3" nes it coin: sold I Ntai Pol Dial oh • ly 1 b tg st e • l e re .s la a P u p o " io ßi te t re d trade: Fro cl' s no other city in the 1 I with chartered Magis. e to its inhabitants ; a nd e necessity for a moment • Peell e 'e measure, for more ef, - to co ice of that city, and t e • s ite ihabitants ? If, in fact, t it a stop to th e abuses if, would be both necessary . eras t • of tb in favour of the cha r . the s respectable Magistr.k, • 'it b y would inte r f ere , b y al. es Ant Magistrates, instead • then chosen by th e Ce r . t in the necessity of some sire a of Dublin, but contended, wa s rat iciple not to interfere ivi6 of the t XCHtQL I kR 1 1 °' S ' information he had rt.. had not so far interposed odeleD at active Magistrates be. g. the charter, there would _ r _ _ .