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wTJ - abt CONTRACTS FOR RUM, PEAS, COCOA, TOBACCO, &c. VICTUALLING OFFICE, May a, 1 sal . THE COMMISSIONERS for VICTUALLING his MAJESTY'S NAVY, lie. do hereby give Notice. 1 4 ,,t iv c ,ft ~, .,...5 . ,0 0, 4,; . wir.--Nyi,-.)'- O: ... ttil i 0 ision.Dfa -priaciii 2.1.1- i i. i. • , . . I w o e, . the medium of one of the illustrious offsprings of o►r lady ambaasadress, Viscountess Stranxford. This remarkably striking Coincidence of mutual benefits, imparted from Constantinople to London, and vice versa, by two lady ambassa dresses of exalted rank and talent, must be for ever hailed u a very remarkable reality, by the inhabitants of both Nations, which will live for many ages in the annals of History and Natural Phi. losophy.—Reecr's Garen*. That on Tummy, the 12th Instant, they will be ready receive Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat for the supply of t he following Atticles to be delivered Into the Victualling Stores at pt f Id, viz. •RTICLE. QUANTITY. PERIOD Or DELIVERY. "...Z0 DI U Peas • • • • 'Oatmeal .. .. 100,000 Gallons .. 500 Quarters ... 40 Tons 20 Tons One half of each by the 30th instant, and the remainder by the 25th June next. lo3p 3,!tter •• .. :brew 50 Tons 5 Tons 10 Tons 20 Tons Tobacco Sample+ of the Peas, Cocoa, and Oatmeal, must be produced by h e party tendering ; but those for Soap and Tobacco, together with he Conditions of the Contracts, may be seen at this Office. Each Tender must specify the price in words at length, and be de wered before One o'Clock on the Day appointed ; and the Person who makes the Tender, or some Person on his behalf, must attend :o answer when called for. M. WALLER CLIFTON. SLOP CLOTHING, Bcc. VICTUALLING OFFICE, 6th May, 1831. THE COMMISSIONERS for VICTUALLING 1 his MAJESTY'S NAVY, 4c. do hereby give notice, That on Wannzanar, the 18th instant, they will be ready to receive Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat for the supply of the under mentioned Articles, to be delivered into his Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, viz. ARTICLES. QUANTITY. IPIRIOD 01 , DILIVIRT. Blue Cloth Jackets, No. 2 .. 5,000 No. Trowsers, No. 2 10,000 Pair Duck Cloth ... 400,000 Yards Flannel Wistcoasts ... 10,000 No. Bl3nkets 10,000 No. Shirts ... ... 20,000 No. Back Silk Handkerchiefs .. 15,000 No. Caps for Boats' Crews .... 500 No Shoes .. 20,000 Pair Buttons .. 3,000 Gross Thread ... .. 2,000 Pounds BOYS' SLOP CLOTHING. Blue Cloth Jackets Trowsers Shirts ... One half of each by the 31st July next. and the re mainder by 74th Aug. following. 500 No. 500 Pair 1,000 No. The whole by the 31st day of July next. 2,000 Pair Samples of each of the above mentioned Articles of Slop Clothing, &c. and the Conditions of the Contracts, may be seen at this Office. Each Tender must specify the price in words at length, and be de livered before One o'Clock on the Day appointed ; and the Person who makes the Tender, or some Person on his behalf, must attend to saswer when called for. M. WALLER CLIFTON. SOCIETY for the DISCHARGE and RELIEF of PEItSOMS I3IPRISONED for SMALL DEBTS, throuahout ENGLAND and WALES, established 1772. PRESIDENT—The Earl of RO3INEY. TIC IE•PESIDENTS. Sir F. Burdett, Bart. M.P. Charles Edward Pigou, Esq. Lord De Dunstinville Lord Kenyon The lit.lion.lqr R. Peel, Bt.M.P. TREASURlR—Benjamin Bond Cabbeil, E•q. Auirroai—John Prpys, Esq. and Colin Mackenzie, Esq. At a MEETING of GOVERNORS, held in Craven-street, on Wednesday, the 4th day of May, 1831, the cases of 93 Petitioner, were considered, of which 68 were approved, 13 rejected, 6 inadmis sible, and 6 deferred for inquiry. Since the Meeting held 6th April, two hundred and three debtors, of whom 172 had wives and 498 children, have been discharged from the Prisons of England and Wales; the expense of whose liberation, including every charge connected with the Society, was 5981. Ss. and the foll..wing BENEFACTIONS iIIICZWID SINCE TIM LAST IMPOST. The Right Hon. Lord De Dunstanville - - A. ElO 0 0 John Curteis, Esq. . . 5 5 0 . krt. Curteis - . - . 5 0 0 G. R. - . - - 2 0 0 J. H. Lethbridge, Esq. - - . 2 2 0 The Rev. E. 1 radford - - - 1 1 ts One portion of a consecrated Legacy - - 21 0 0 D.---- - 1 0 0 The Right Hon. Lord Skeltnersdale - . 25 0 0 J. P. Cranmer, Esq. - . - A. 2 2 0 G. R. li - - - - A. 3 3 0 David Haliburton, Esq. - - - A. 5 3 0 3liss St..tlert - - - - - A. 1 1 0 Moiety of Fine of Driver of Cab. No. 161 - 0 10 0 The London Knot of Friendly Brothers of St . Patrick, per Treasurer John Richard Baker, Ei - . - A. • Colonel Davis - . - - A. John Dawkins, Esq. . . A. Henry Holland, Esq. . - . . A. W. C. Towers, Esq. . . . - A. Mrs. Dickinson . . A. Jo,bus Watson, Esq. - . . - A. William Tooke, Esq. - - A. . Joseph Hume, Esq. . . . A. - Lleutena - nt-Colonel Purchas . A. E. Wouds, Esq. - . . A. - The Executors of the late Mrs. Dorothy Reeve, Legacy Colonel Kaye, per Messrs. Courts and Co. . - A. Mrs. Kaye, ditto - . - . . A. S. W. . . - - A. Mews. Cocks and Bleldulph - . - A. Sir Wrn. W. Pepys, Bart. per Messrs. Hoare and Co. A. S. W. ei::to - . - A. Wiliam Harland, Esq. ditto . . A. I h.irits Marriott, Esq. ditto - . A. J. Knowles, Esq. per Messrs. Whitmore and Co. - A. Henry Holland, Esq. per John Pepys,__Esq. - The accountant - General , under the Will of the Earl of Kerry. per Tri.asurer - - - - 25 0 0 Thlo, order the Will of Mrs. A. M. Stafford, per ditto . 100 0 0 Ditto, t.neler the Will of Robert Sorrell, Esq. per ditto - 264 18 11 Benefactions are received by Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq. the Tres sorer, No. 1, Brick court, Temple ; also by the following Bankers : Sles•rs. Cocks, Dorrien, Drummonds, Herrles, Hammerskys, Hoarea, Whiten re, Veres ; and by the Secretary, No. 7, Ctaven-street, Strand, where the Books may be seen by those who are inclined to %ippon the Charity, and where the Society :meet on the first Wednes. 'ay in every Month. 5 0 0 2 2 0 2 2 0 3 3 0 2 2 0 2 2 0 2 2 0 2 2 0 2 2 0 2 2 0 1 1 0 9 2 0 90 0 0 3 3 0 2 2 0 S 5 0 3 3 0 2 2 0 1 1 0 3 3 0 5 0 0 5 8 0 21 0 0 JOSEPH LUNN, Stereury. VAT URE is a Mysterious Trea-A:ry. It possesaes -LI innumerable blessings for human kind, and produces an antidote lorevery disorder incident to rite human frame. This treasury. with :3 its Mira:liable riches, is the proper study of Medical Science ; and rtit.di es the most laborious research to discover and develope all its ririous mysteries. For twenty years has our successful experience been directed to the treatment of a certain class of disorders, and we pledge ourselves to the "'"val of Syphilis, from its incipient symptoms to the remotest stales, characterised by every doubt, and whatever malignancy. The , ntricate and much neglected diseases of the Urethra, bays been care. tally and studiously considered, as have also those delicate and int• vrtant sympathies which refer to the Female Sex. The infirmities iitili.y have been especially noticed, whether as wising front the de. biliraring tyranny of a tropical atmosphere—the natural bests of can't'. torf,n—tbe imprudebce of gaiety, or the more alarming results of a Proptn , i(y to practices " which shun the light," the progress of 7 41 c13 i, marked by a gradual dereliction of the animal powers. To ni who are thus circumstanced, and more especially to such as are vplrauts for connubial pleasures, we earnestly recommend our Com ,l'm..rm.-Ist, the " /Egli of Life," a commentary on Sexual Debi '"f; ud." The Syphilist," a popular treatise on Lues Venues. &c. 4 _, 4 74 ," llygei ana ," exclusively addressed to Females ; the perusal Wnich must prove beneficial to their moral happiness. These Hooks may be bad of Sherwood, Paternoster-row ; and d apple. 29, Pall-mall ; Onwyn, Catherine -street, Strand, London ; Sithi lland, No. 9, Calton-street, Edinburgh ; Porter, TS Grafton "lets Lublin; and of all Booksellers.--(Prim 55.) , •nri Remedies eau be f orwar d e d to any part of the world; Patients for the same will please to enclose a Bank Note. Attendance at home for consultation as usual. LOSS sad Co. M.R.C. Surgeons, No.ll. Bmweelo-strott, Fleet. U ri", Laden. Shoes MONDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1831. THE BEST AND MOST DURABLE HATS IN THE KINGDOM. n OWDEN, Waterproof Hat Maker, 17. and '27, Hi?th ! Street, Bloomsbury, most respectfully informs his numerous Customers and Friends he has opened the House (17) nearly opposite ' St. Giles's Church, partly in consequence of the increasing d.:inand for Hats of kis manufacture, and pattly to counteract an opposition forming by some individuals known by the cognomen of Jews, who have crept ' into the trade and dubbed themselves Hat Makers, vending an Article which the unsuspecting Purchaser might imagine, from a casual survey, to be intrinsically good, and thereby materially injuring the long.esta blished fame he has enjoyed, from the circumstance of many occasional customers not being acquainted with the precise situation of his houses. BOWDEN needs only to add, that from the extensive patronage he has already received, (and which be with gratitude views daily extend. • ed) he is convinced dist all articles purchased at his houses have given that satisfaction which it ever has and shall be his study to deserve ; asking as a favour from the public, and his more immediate friends, that they will please to observe his Establishments are only Two in that Street, viz. 17 and 27, which Houses he has endeavoured to ten der conspicuous, thereby to avoid disappointment. CI Old Hats covered with Silk from Gs. to Bs. N.B.—Shopkeepers and Country Dealers supplied on the most ad vantageous terms. PRICE 7n. imagination has beet too little attended to. It la a subject pregnant with imhortaucs, and well deserving serious attention. The origin of the fin :he influence of the ittia4int• , , , i nt'. r tha body, is coeval with our earinlit rncords. It is unnecessary for no. .0 antion the contrivance vtliclt the patriarch Jacob is repr..sen•ed to h..ve rupt..y. d to order to attgm-nt the number of limb., anti kids, whirr!, smirching to the agreement !.etween ', t han aad ilins-elf, were to tall to his share. The tyrant Dionysius, who was dc. armed hi.. self, in order that he multi have a comely issue, is said :o have always had a beauti ful picture set before his w fe in the bed-chamber, that, by the 'Mee of fancy and ht.:Oration. she might c,onc:ir.. a likeness of it. It appears that the notion of the influence of the imaginaiinn of the mother over the frame in uteru was most geber el among the ancients. Sir Evntard I Lome has, in our own dines, attempted tat revive this nm inn. Sit Retraid., with the assi.iance of a very powerful microscope, has detected nerves in the placenta, and he endeavours to prove that the brain of the ten her and that of the fcetus is connected by the medium of nerves hi the plactnta, and on this data he argues that any agitation of the motkier's mind must necessarily effect the foetus. I there be a nervous coinmualcatinn between the brala of the tnother and Farms, a thing which I am not at present inclined to admit, there would be no difficulty in suppordng Sir E Home's theory. Every idea which enters the mind must be preceded by an action of the nervous system ; sensations must he transmitted by the nerves to the sensorium, in which organ perception takes place. The agitation in the nervous system is in proportion to the strength of the idea which enters the mind. If the individual is agitated by any frightful idea, a violent commotion takes place in the nervous system ; and it, as Sir E. H wishoi to prove, there is a nervous communication between the mother and child, there cannot be much difficulty in supposirg that a violent agitation of the passions or imagination of the mother should cause a corresponding agitation in the nervous system of the child; and as the due performance of the exhalent arteries, which deposit the nutritious matter, depend upon a healthy action of the nerves, every derangement in the nervous actions must necessarily modify, and in, some degree, affect the corporeal frame of the infant. A very exaaortlinary case is related by Sir W. Scott, in his " Let.ers on Demonology and Witchcraft.," exemplifying, in a power. ful degree, the influence of the imagination over the body. Tice pa dent, after his health had been ruined, and his constitution under mined, confessed, with great reluctance, that the cause of his illness was owing to his having beet constantly haunted by some imaginary apparition. Every thing was done by his physicians to eradicate his morbid sensations, but all to no effect. The patient sunk into deeper and deeper dejection, and died in the same distress of mind in which he hail spent the latter months of his life, his case remaining, to use the language of Sir W. Scott, .• a melancholy instance of the power of the imagination to kill the body, even when its fantastic terrors can not overcome the intellect of the untintunate persons who suffer under them." My views on the influence of the passions on the body are simply these. The passions I divide into those that rouse or excite, and those that depress the system. The passions, such as fear, love, anxiety, and all the depresaing passions, ought to be carefully avoided by those labouring under diseases, either caused by a debilitated state of the constitution, or in which debility is the principal symptom. These depressing passions act by exhausting the nervous energy, and, there for:, must materially weaken the organic functions, as their healthy state depends on a proper supply of the principle, which, for want of ' a better name, we call nervous. Therefore, in those maladies which depend upon a low state of the nervous system, nothing acts so bene. ficially am stimulus applied to the mind : its effects upon the physical health is astanishing. Mr. Madden, in his Narrative to the East, says, " In Alexandria have seen whole troops of negro soldiers carried off, after a kw days' sickness, from the effect of cold. in this mortality, however, moral depressieg causes had much to do ; the Arab had no resource within himself to resist a hardship of which he had no previous knowledge; the nepo had no moral courage to invigorate or revive him, when the chime'. of dollar matte him Bak, or the sea breeze niaete him shiver • and nothing but the strong exertion of mental energy can counteract th e ill effects o: a vicissitude of climate on the feeble frame of man. In my own ptactice among Europeans I have had painful expetience of the fatal effects of mental exhaustion, of irritability of temper, and of timi dity of spirit." Those predisposed to inflammatory complaints, to apoplexy, and other diseases arising from, or aggravated by, a plethoric state of the consti tution, should carefully avoid all the exciting passions, such as anger, fright, terror, &c. which excite an inordinate action in the nervous system, which frequently gives rise to inflammatory diseases. All ' inflammatory complaints are caused by an unusual quantity of nervous fluid being sent to a particular part : this causes an increased action of the arteries, and the other phenomena of inflammation. Now it stands to reason that any thing calculated to propel an increased quantity of nervous principle to a part already too much excited, must cause an aggravation of the disease. Inflammatory fevers, apo plexy, hemorrhage, and local inflammations, have heen known to arise in consequence of great mental excitement. On the other hand, typhus fever, intermittent fever, and otner maladies depending for their exist. epee on a low ewe of the vital powers, are aggravated by those passions which depress the nervous system. These passions, I consider, whe. thee depressing or exciting passions, to act upon the corporeal frame through the medium of the nervous system. The vascular system, I consider to be greatly influenced by the state of the nervous system, and that a perfect state of health depends upon an equilibrium being established between the two systems. It is the abuse and not •he use of the passions that acts thus injuriously upon the constitution. While the impressions made upon the nervous system by the passions are mode rate and restrained within bounds, by a natural gratification of the passions, guided and contioled by reason, the effect produced upon the system is rather of a beneficial than a pernicious nature. The passions strengthen muscular motion, keep up the circulation of the blood, proinote the natural secretions, and excite a man to such exer cises and actions calculated to promote the health and life of the indi vidual INFLUENCE OF THE PASSIONS AND IMAGINATION, BY Foists WINSLOW, ESQ• Read at the Westminster Medical Society, Feh. 19, 1831. Some philosophers and poets of antiquity, among whom we find Ho. mer. Plato, and Aristotle, have placed anger among the pleasurable passions. Aristotle observes, that it is pleasant to be angry.' Joy acts as a stimulant to the body. Sanctorius ascribed the effect of joy to a portion of the nervous fluid being forced out along with the per. spirable matter. Dr. Parsons, in his Physiology. ascribes the effects of joy to the great determination of blood to the head, propelled by the heart and arteries. Baron Haller suspects a kind of apoplexy produced in the system by the sudden effects of joy; and Dr. Cullen ascribes the effects to a loss of tone in the system, which it cannot recover. Joy,' says Pritchard, ' is more likely to occasion sudden insanity than grief, because the former cannot, like the latter, hind relief in tars, and tears are the natural solution of cerebral excitement and congestion. If intense grief do not find this natural vent for increased cerebral ex citement, mental derangement, with a propensity to suicide, is a fre quent consequence. Hope is a modification of joy, or rather joy by anticipa t ion. It is encouragement given to desire. Hope is so pleasing, so invigorating an affection, that it is emphatically styled the balm of life. It preserves the mind from stagnating in its present possessions, corrects the uneasi ness of desire and animates it to strnggle with difficulties it may have to encounter. Hope possessing the happy secret of anticipating the good we desire, Sir Walter Scott has justly observed, the chief pleasure of life consists in the anticipation of enjoyment. He who gave away all he had, and reserved only hope, made not so ill a bargain as may be ima gintd : he took for himself that which is sweetest its life. how often do we see sickness, which has resisted the ordinary meant of cure, yield solely to tire influence of the mind, reposing confidence in the pretending impostures of some, of the supposed sanctity and efficacy of prayers and good works of others. All the wonderful cures attributed to the prayers of Prince Hohenlohe, Perkins's metallic tractors, and magnetism, may be accounted for on this principle. Unless the phy. sician be able to inspire confidence in his patient, he will effect but little towards a cure. " Hence," say. an eminent writer and acute thinker, . 4 the physician is often the poet and artist, the third son of Apollo, and begotten only under the influence of mild contellations He that depends on medicine alone, as such, seeks corn in dtraelted sheaves. Medicine," he continues, "is but an instrument of cure ; but the physician heals, not by medicine alone, but also by the glance of the eye, and by the animating word." Many pathologists have attempted to trace the origin of all diseases to a disturbance in the nervous system. Thus, in fever, Dr. Smith says, the primary disturbance is an affection of the nervous function., which is followed by increased vascular action, or disordered secretions. Andral has stated ices his opinion, in his new work on Consumption, ' " that pulmonary tubercles are the product of morbid secretion, which morbid secretion may be the consequence, and in the majority of in. stances is. of a commotion in the centre of the nervous system. Send. tion, no doubt, depends upon a healthy condition of the vascular system, and the vascular system being under the control of the nervous system, it may easily be conceived how a disturbance of that system, by an inor dinate indulgence in the passions, should give rise to consumption Andrasl says, that he has frequently seen the disease brought on by deep and long.continued mental affliction. Serous collections in different cavities of the body are frequently attributable to a disturbance in the nervous system, which disturbance may be produced by the working of the passions. Local diseases in different parts of the body are very much influenced by the state of the mind. I have seen a remarkable case of ulceration in the leg of a woman, which resisted the ordinary remedial agents, heal rapidly in consequence of her mind bang tranquillised by the return of her husband trom sea. The typhoid fevers of this country, which depend upon, and are aggravated by, a deficient supply of nervous energy, frequently owe their origin to the depressing effects of passion, caused by mental anxiety—ungratified love--exceasive grief, &c. Every thing ought to be done, under such circumstances, to rouse and excite the patient. I insanity is the frequent consequence of disappointment in the gratifica tion of a predominant passion. On account of the marked effect which some passions have upon the vascular system, many pathologist, have attributed all diseases of the heart to commotion, of the mind. There can be no doubt that many diseases of that organ are to be attributed to an original derangement of the brain and nervous system, which change may be the effect of mental emotion. The effects of fear are to be accounted for, partly on the principle of a powerful stimulus (hope) being removed, and partly by the spe cific action of the ideas representing the object of aversion, and par ly from the re-action of the emotion and disorder of the mind.— Romelli relates the case of a French gentleman, who was thrown int) prison, and on whom fear operated so powerfully as to change his hair completely grey during the night. Dr. Darwin ascribes t h is phenomenon to the torpor of the vessels which circulate the fluids destined to nourish the hair. Mr. Madden in his account of his travels to the Levant, in th e chapter on the plague, after relating a case of infection produced by fear, observes, " This is one of the many proofs I have had of the influence of the mind over disease. In no other complaint is this influence so marked. The man who is appre• hensive of contagion is always the first to take the disease ; fear is a predisposing cause of the plague." The process of labour Is frequently ' interrupted by fear. Many authors consider terror a distinct passion front fear: fear, they say, is :a depressing passion, and tenor exciting. Sir A Crichton says there is no difference between the two passions ; f.ar arises in consequence of an anticipated evil, terror from one present. The will is not excited in the former, consequently the inns des of voluntary action partake of the torpor. Oreding, in his excel- lent essay, relates several cases of epilepsy, complicated with insanity, and with melancholia, which arose from slight causes of fear. Constant Ras produces weakness in the judgment; the power of attention cannot be excited. Fear of poverty among the opulent is frequently a cause of insanity. I have proved, says Bosquillim, im my commentaries on the Elements of Practical Medicine, by Cullen, that terror alone may determine the symptoms of hydrophobia, or madness, in those who have been bitten by animals suspected to be attacked with this disorder. Numbers of persons have been seen to labour under symptoms of this nature, and to recover on being informed that the dog that had bitten them was not mad. - °net, sorrow, love, I consider, in some degree, debilitating passion... We have a remarkable instance of death being produced by grief in the life of Hobert 111. of Scotland. The celebrated Verabus is said to have died of grief for having opentd a man, whose bean was palpi. tating. Le Brun observes, it is remarkable that admiration causes I no alteration either in the heart or in the blood, as the other passions do; the reason of this is, that not having eith e r g o od or evil for its object, but only a want of knowing the thing admired, it has no relation either to the heart er the body, on which all the sensual pleasures depend, When love Is unattended with any extraordinary degree of joy, desire, or sadness, the pulse beats regular, and is much higher and stronger than usual; it diffuses a genial warmth into the breast, and; facilitates the digestion of the food in the stomach ; an that this passion; " Le Brun says, "is very good for the health." On the contrary, h% observable in hatred the pulse is irregular, the breast feels a heat, inter mixed with a certain sharp and piercing tire, and the stomach ceases to perform its functions. In joy the pulse is quicker than ordinary, though not so quick se In love. In our investigation into the phenomena of disease, and the aunt s of their departure front the healthy standard, the influence of the Inocu! alien and Vaccination. By JOHN MARSHALL. EM. A farmer, bearing the name of Benjamin Jesty, determined to tty the I effects of vaccine inoculation on himself, his wife, and two ions, who accordingly armed the needle from the vesicle on the teat of a cow, and operated on the back of the hand near the knuckle of the fore-finger, which left a cicatrix. This experiment took place in 1774, at List thirty years before Dr. Jenner. In 1804, Mr. Jesty and one of his sons came to London, at the request of the Board. On being asked why he did not persevere in his plan of inoculation, he replied, •• That he was so laughed at and ridiculed by the inhabitants of the village, for in. traducing a bestial disease into his family, that he gave it up, and thought no more about it; notwithstanding, however, he rejoiced to find that it was taken up by the faculty." A question was asked (which 1 have since remembered) what induced him to make the trial? " By having known, throughout his life, that all the milkmaids who had taken the disease from the cow, never afterwards caught the sm.:II-pox." In order, however, to ascertain whether they were secure after the lapse of thirty years, Jetty and his son were re-vaccinated. The operation 1 severally witnessed, which was followed by premature irregular pim ples, attended by itching, which died off in a few days. Partner Jetty was then in his seventieth year, who, on being asked how often the dis ease prevailed among the cows, replied, to our mutual surprise, " That it was by no tneans a common or fit qurnt occurrence ; he had only seen the complaint three times during his life, and that it happened about once in two or three and twenty years, or thereaway." It may be here remarked as somewhat surprising, by the acknow ledged freedom with which the story got wind among the tittle-tattle scandal of the village possips. aided by the satirical weapons of peevish old n aids, that some juvenile medical spark, residing in the purlieus, did not embrace the tit opportunity of crowning himself by taking a hint, and snatching the laurel from the brow of Jesty. A hundred years ago, Ittaly Mary Wortley Montague was atnhas sadreas to the Sublime Ottoman Porte of Constantinople, by whose ekeant epistolary correspondence, a vast improvement in the treatment of small.pox was introduced to Old England, by mitigating the deadly attributes of natural varitilus by inoculation, which is fully described, in her ladyship's works. The vacciae eli.tast- was propagated in the following manner, from our ratite shorts into the Turkish dominion, which completely ab sorbed the untoward impediments in the medical art, which hod been hitherto fingered by the superstitious t!a•etrints of the Koran. By the powerful influence of this regal exam pl many other 'Gantries rapid ly adopted vaccinations, situate in he eastern climates, namely,Egypt. Arabia, Syria, and Abyssinia. 'I'M, reminds me of the anecdote mid of Louis the Pourteenth,who banished, in one day, the mistaken objec tions made by his subjects against the ',motor, by wearing at court a blossom of the plant in his button-holes as a beatqata. These subjects confirm the following extract from the classics —• Regis ad exemplum totum componitor orbem'—all the world is governed by the example of a king. Vaccination war primarily communicated to the juvenile princes of the august Mahometan family of the grand monarch of the Turkish empire, residing in the sumptaous seraglio of Constantinople, through On the baneful erects of Tiblinacing. Br J. To sow, Ewa. (From the Monthly of Practical Medicine.) Though I may incur the displeasure of many of the female part of the community in investigating a subject, Inc province of which they may consider peculiarly their own ; after perusing my observations, I Batter nasal they will be convinced an anxious solicitude alone for their welfare has induced me to offer few remarks upon a subject which will be found not only highly important, bet most essentially necessary to their future comfort and happiness; nay, 1 may say, will contribute, in h pre-eminent degree, to enhance 'Loa,: personal charms which they have been so long mistakingly, and, with perverted optics, vainly flattering themselves were beauties instead of deformities. In order to view this subject in its nue character, let us contemplate the structure of the human body in its natural state. Here we shall observe that the viscera have particular situations and posinons assigned them ; that they are endowed with functions peculiar to themselves ; formed with a sagacity never to be too much admired ; and all so admirably harmo nising together, that, when uninterrupted in their operation, the must beautiful symmetry in the human frame is the natural result. In con &nation of this, whenever Nature is allowed to pursue its accustomed course, we see ruddy health, well-proportioned limbs, and an elegantly constructed form. Such are the effects of Creative Wisdom. Is it pos sible to conceive, being thus happily circumstanced, that human nature should arrogantly and presumptuously set up a process for the forma tion and growth of the human body, so diametrically opposite to that which GOD and Nature intended for our good ? Its bare contemplation fills me with horror. Such, however, is the fact, inconceivable as it may appear. The figure of the Venus de Medicis is not suitable to the genius of the present age; such is now the fashion that, to be considered any thing like genteel, the female form must assume the att ape of all hour-gt.ss. This is esteemed the height of perfection, What a rid:. colour idea ! For this purpose every Invention is called into action to reduce the waist to the smallest possible dimensions. Stays, belts, ligatures, steel busks of different descriptions, are called into requisition for the accomplishment of this most absurd object. By means of this prepaccrous conduct, the bones of the chest are compressed,—the car tilages of the ribs ride over each other,—the vital organs, so essentially necessary to our very existence, are obstructed and injured in theit opt rations,—the diaphragm is impeded in its action,—the circulation through the large blood-vessels is obstructed,— and the breasts whim', in a natural state, are so beautifully constructed, are Battened and become flaccid, losing their excellent rotundity and figure, and are d - prived of their alluring and captivating charms ; and various other evils are the result of this baneful practice. Now, let me ask, for what are all these ills incurred ? Is there any thing particularly beau tiful or desirous in an hour.glass contraction of the human frame? is there any thing particularly fascinating in pushing the breasts up to the neck, in forcing the stomach and liver into the inferior part of the abuts men, and forcing the bowels over the brim of the pelvis,—thus ois placing these important organs from the original position which Nature assigned them, producing ruptures, &c. P Its absurdity is too obvious to render any further comments upon it necessary. I Phan now point out, from long and extensive practice, the diseases resulting from this ill-judged arrangement and mischieveusinte ference, independently of the natural and accordant growth of the human fr a me being th us deranged. The feats es indulging in this fashion are troubled wish shortness of breath, toss of appetite,—in truth, from the compressed state of the stomach, it is incapable of receiving sufficient nutriment for the support of the annual economy ; in consequence of which glandular obstructions, dyspeptic sin inpioins, faintinge, convulsions, palpitations of the heart, and a riumetous tram ul nervous diseases are the result. The effects of the pressor_ on the heart and lungs are, head.ache, spitting of blood, it,flaitimat n.) of the eyes, swelled legs, varicose veins, and a numbaleA catalogue of woful maladies. It will be Lecessa y for me to observe that this is not the only error, I regret to say, by which the undue interference of tile female pan of the commuity is productive of serious evils. It is considered by them a great beauty that the blettlebones should inert; back-boards, &c. are called into use for this purpose; and by these means, whet:- ever this, which they consider an eltgible object, is ac.oomplislinl, the result naturally ensuing is, the clavicles are partially, it not wholly dislocated. In consequence, likewise, of the pressure used for this and the previous purposes, the various muscles of the numan body which, in their natural state, tend to contribute to its beauty and tied y , are altogether deprived of their powers of acting, which, by tong continued want of exercise, are ahogetner lust and destroyed. Hunch.backa, crooked spines, and distorted pelves, are thus produced. Such is time melancholy picture us this injudicious practice, whicto the present time will not allow me to expatiate upon. Suffice it to say, th.,t the states moot here exhibited is by no means exaggerated. respaience and ob servation concur in entorcing the cony tenon, that i the cool:mutton were lett to its own unbiassed operations, a robust frail. , sound con audition, mid healthy old age would he the necessary result; on the contrary, if this absurd custom be pursued, the health will he most se siourly injured, and a debilitated frame dm eons. got le s ill be shortened, and, as long as its contiuuance exist* eti bi teied with misery and sorrow. In the one case, we see the edicts of Creative in the other, the pernicious contrivance of ignorance said fully. 4 THE CH Illttat. OXFORD, Ma 5. Tnis day the following tientlemen were admitted to &stets : BACHELOR IN CIVIL Law.—Jeffirl_Lkins, Fellow of New Collee. Al. STERS OP ARTs.— Rev. J. A. HaiTibOO , St. Diary Hall ; Rev . J. Lawson, St. Alban Hall; W. D. lkrnatd, W. M. Harvey, and B. Spry, Grand Compounder, W a dh am ; D. J ac k son , Queen's ; E C. Seymour, Christ-Church. liscirious or A ava—H. S. Hale and W. B Dynham, Magdalen Hall ; M. Jackson, Lincoln; W. W. Knighton, J. Tobin. and J. H. Grier., Claim-Church ; H. C. On4ow, U. Robins, J. P. Wilson. and C. King, itia6daltn College; A. Oxenden, ar.d R. they. University; 0. A. Goddard, and H. Auldjo, Brazen.nost ' • H. Powell, and R. A. S ert, Lacier; G. T. ‘Viiiifield, St. John's ; P. H. Symonds, &. id niund Hall, W. Giles, and W. Bathurst, Wadham ; J. H. Stuart, Trinity; W. F. Williams, Jesus • J. Hardy, Gild. CAM Bit IhO R. MAT. . _ . On Monday last Edward Ellice, Fag. and Francis Dashwood. of Trinity College, were admittedHottorary Blasters of Arts. Oa Friday last, the Rev. Joh° Prestos' Reynolds, M.A. was insti tuted to .he Rectory of Beeston at. Andrew, In Norfolk, ott the pre. sentatlon of F. R. iteynolds. On the saute day, die Rev. Francis William Cubitt, B.A. was biota. tilted to the Rectory of Fritton, in Suffolk ; and the Rey. Edw. door, B.A. was licensed to the Perpetual Curacy of Brightwt.ti, in the sante county. NAVAL IiWaiIi,ENCE. FALMOUTH, liar 7. FaiDAY,MAY 6.—Wind N.—Anived his Majesty's packet Reim. deer, Lieut. Rees acting, from Halifax, sailed 20th April, with loss of foremast and bowsprit; also arrived his Majesty's ship Chanticleer, Austin, from the Coast of Africa, last from Si. Michael's ; the Star, Hill, from St. Jago de Cuba, for olden, forty.two days • the Lana, Baddie, (ruin St. Domingo , for orders , forty days, with la ss of main ' topmast and lower masts sprung • the uke of Richmond, Cook, tr u m Woolaich ; and Active, Wyatt, from London. Sailed, his Majesty's steamer Meteor, Symons, for the Mediterranean; the Lord Melville packet, %+ ebb, for the B.aails; and the 111srlbro• packet, Bull, foe Lisbon, all with mails of the 3d instant; the Gleaner, Grielths, for Liverpool; and the Belanna, Gat rick, for Wales. SATURDAY, MAY 7.—Wind E.—Arrived the Louis. Dunlop, from St. Domingo, for orders, and Antwerp • the Duke of kichn oad, Cook, from Woolwich ; the Active, Wyatt, irom London; and the Thomas, from Dublin. Passed the Pert, the Planet, Barclay, Irmo: Jamaic.t, for London. Bailed, the Expedition, Williams, and he Ells zebra,. Griffiths for Liverpool ; and the Regent, Bieber, tor Watt-fiord. MAKGATE, MAY 6. Arrived the Rosanna, Forster, Berbtue. DEAL, MAY 6 Wind N., moderate.—Arrived the Lady MANN Tucker, Borni,ay Waterlilly, Bruce, Jamaica; Charles Bell, Brook, St.Vir.cent ; ar:d Ceres, alarseilles. PORTSMOUTH. MAY 6 —Wind N.W. to NAL equal:. Arrived his ujrpt)'. ship Galatea, from Tampico, last from the avansalt,in 49 clap, with 100.000 dollars. BR I 6 TO N MAY 6 —Arrivedoff, the Elphinstone, Oldham, Madras. FALMOUTH, MAY 6.—K and W. to N.W. fresh gales.—Arrived the Alutinc packer, tram Vim Crus; Concordia, Lowe; Ann, Cayler, and Eleanor. Si. Michael's. The Muting packet sailed llith Mach from Vera Cruz, and 6111 ult from the Havannab. Doves, Mar 6.—Arrivid off Port, the John Pierce. Bodeen, tilt. Vii,cem's; Driver, Conetaininople ; and Bahicum, I date. . _ Bay ssELLs, APRIL 29.—Our town has now lost all traces of the 'evolution, excepting here and there s house that au burnt ; every thing is quit tly assuming its old course : the repairs in the park are completed, and it is ttuitely awl delightfully arranged; great numbers of men are culplo~ed iu forming a new Boulevard, which is to extend a:I round the town ; this, when finished, and planted with double rows of trees, will add greatly to the beauty of the place, and pleasure of its inhabitants. The new basin is opened! it looks extremely handsome, and is calculated to aCCOOIOUrdaIe R considerable number of vessels; this will be an additiol al mance of attraction to our fashionable prom nade. The " Allee Verte, which looks green and spring like, was crowded on Sunday with the bean meads, gaily and elegantly dressed.—This account differs materiallyfrem the lawe and melancholy descriptions given in some of the EngliA papers, nevertheless it is a true one. N°. 13,779.