The National Register. — London, England, 1817-10-20 00:00:00

'OCT. tO day was a handsome breakfast sent by the Emperor, which was most acceptable, as many of the party had tasted milting since the preceding day. At four Lord Amherst got Into his chair; and thus to all outward appearance has the • embassy terminated." " Having given op my chair to an invalid, I returned in •ose of the carts, the motion was bearable till we came on the •paved road, when the jolting became intolerable; it was a repeated dislocation of every part of the frame, each jolt seemed sufficient to have destroyed life, which yet remained to undergo the dreadful repetition. The elements combined with the imperial displeasure to annoy us; the rain fell in torrents, not however, so violently as to deter the spectators from indulging their curiosity by thrusting lanterns into the choirs and carts to have a fuller view of our persons. I cer tainly never felt so irritated in my life. To be exposed to 'such indecent curiosity while suffering considerable pain from the jolting was too much for the best tempers to bear patiently, and produced in we something not far removed from phrenzy. The darkness, holes in the road, and heavy rain, rendered walking almost impracticable, o Inch, hoe ever I attempted, and should have persisted, had I not apprehend ed being separated from the rest of the party. Although tfoo had asserted that our march that night was to have been limited to twenty lees, we were carried without halting to our boats et Tongsehow, which we reached at three o'clock 'in the morning un the 30th." SIR JOHN 21101.1 HON'S WILL. This has been lodged in the Prerogative Court. The probate was extracted on the 11th inst. and granted to the Right lion. Sir Wil liam M•Mahon, 83d. Master of the Rolls in Ireland (the brother of the testator), who is appointed the sole executor : it is dated ittith of Arril, lain. The personal property is sworn to be under oo,ood. 20.0X4)1. are given w the said Sir William AP . Malion, and he is also appointed residuary legatee. To C.d. Thomas INPNIahon, aide-de-camp to the Prince Regent, is left the sum of 10,0001.; to Susan Eliz. Wyldc, otherwise Nlit ford, 5.001.; to Thomas lllarratile, Esq. " a dear and esteemed friend," 2,04404• The testator adds to this bequest ; " and with my hat prayers fur the glory and happiness of the hest-hearted ipso in the world, the Prince Regent, I bequeath him the said Thomas Mar rabic, as an invaluable servant." Another bequest to Sir Walter Farquhar, " the preserver of my lit• for many years," 600 guineas; and to another medical attendant 5(01. _ _ Servants arc left a year's wages each ; and to a page at Carlton. house (the son of M. De Pasquier) to whom Sir John was godfather, sooL STOR.IOE'S WILL. The will of Signora Storace was proved in Dactoe'r. Commons on the 11th inst. It is dated on the !nth of August, 1791. Many of the individuals mentioned in it. hale oince that time paid the debt of Nature consequently many of its provizions are rendered ineffectual. Intervening events on the other hand seemed to demand additional diedarations of the Testatrix's intentions. Diligent enquiry for papers of such a nature appears to Lave been prosecuted, but without success.—The writing in question has therefore been considered ar her last testamentary dispesition, of which Joseph Burchell Esq. is the only surviving executor. The property is stated to be under 51,0001. The sum of 5,0001. East India Stock, is in the tirstylacs riven to her mother. Mr . z.ibeth Storace, for life: and after her Zeath, the principal to Brinsley John Storace, her nephew, at the age 4 f fea, the interest in the mean time for his maintenance and educa tion ; of this sum, the late Prince Hoare Esq Ls appoint.d a trustee. The lease of her then residsn,T, a house in lliteland street with all the furniture, is bequeathed in the same ninnuer. One thousand pounds each is given to the Old and New Musical Funds. To the late Mr. Hamann, of Bath, live hundred pounds. 'I he children of Tut cousin, Emily Toozey, and a yams; lady of the name of White, from the West Indies, residing as a pupil at Miss l'russler's school, at Lancaster, arc the Residussay Legatees. Mrs. Mary aitorace, her Lrother's widow, und John Buxton, were the appointed executors. To the former was left five hundred pounds. the deceased's harp, and all her music. 'lite will of which a duplicate is stated to have been Itiade at the time of execution, was found in her ewrutoire, at her house at Herne Hill, where she was accustomed to deposit all papers of importance: arid some subsequent alterations in it arc stated to have been tussle a ,th her own hand. The oblite ration of the name of Mr, Buxton, as an executor, who is since dead. is particularly mentioned in an affidavit made, as to the fin,:ing . et the will, by her mother, Mrs. Eliza:scat Storace. A THANKSGIVING AFTER A GOOD HARVEST. DT SIMON PATRICK, FOMFBLY LORD BISHOP OF ELF'. We praise thee, 0 God, who bait opened unto us thy good trea sure, and given us rain from Heaven. and fruitful sete•ons, tilling our hearts with fixed and gladness. Blessed be God tin the plenty with which Ile heel loaded the caTtb, and fier the fair weather lie Leath sent us. that we might gather it into our barns. He makeh grass to grow upon the mountains: He giveth to the bcsathis fOod t and Ile tilleth us with the finest of the wheat• lie Dateretli the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it way give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater. To Him, therefore, be the praise for these and all his benefits.— Let all the world be glad and rejoice in llim, who prepares a table for us, and satisfies our mouths with good things, and retakes our cup to ran over. 0-that our hearts may ever overflow with love and thankfulness to Him. 0 that we may never forget, nor abuse his goodness; but by a sober, charitable, and pious use of these His blessings, we may be made fit for the continual increase of them, till they all conclude in eternal life, which I most humbly crave for the sake of Christ .Jesus, our blessed Lord and Saviour, to whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost, be all honour, and praise, and hearty obedience:, both now and evermore- Amen. AFRICAN E XPEOlTiON.—Extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at Sierra Leone, dated the Bth of July : Porton:nese ship .Amelia arrived here on the inst. witlithe expedition that was intended for the interior of Africa. Its return has been owing to the deaths of Major 'Peddle and Captain Campbell ; but I understand that it is int endedto pro reed again, under the command of Upon. Thomas Stockhoe, R. N. %lien, I trust, from some new plans, they will -nevi By intelligence from the setticinent• of Gone and the slave trade is again renewed by the French to no small extent. e t,joice to receive almost daily proofs of the improving state of the country. Among these the fol lowing is not the hest striking :—At a meeting of the General Court of Guardians at Norwich on the 7th instant, it appeared, that since Midsummer the number of per is the workhouse had decreased upwards of 200 ; that the applications for the out-door allowances were also much decreased ; and the mulct for the pre sent quarter will be 1 . 5001. less than the last quarter, by which a reduction of 15. 6d. in the pound will take place in the poor-rates. THE NATIONAL REGISTER: VACCINATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER. SIR, It is a melancholy reflection to a sensible mind, that while human life is beset with so many evils that are inevitable, there is a variety of others a..; bard to be borne and as de structive of our happiness for which we ate solely indebted to our own ignorance or folly. We are continually lamenting some adverse eh cunistances in our condition, without reflect ing, that these in a great measure, originate in ourselves, and might receive an easy eradication in our own efforts. But he sorely complains without reason who is suffering the mere consequences of his own folly or guilt. If perversity leads us into a certain ti ail:, and we persist in pursuing it why, should we object to the ruggedness of the road we have chosen, or complain of the difficulties we may meet with on the way ? I have been led into reflections like these by the conduct of a neighbour who has jnst been deprived of an only child by the Small Pox, a disease which the ignorance of some, and the inhumanity of others still keeps alive amongst us. As it' the other " ills that flesh is heir to" were not etimigh, we vo luntarily embraccone of the must destructive and loathsome in the catalogue of diseases and reject the simple and effectual practice which is to secure ns front its own ravages! The advantages of the Vacine Inoculation are so obvious, that it is only necessary to state them to convince the most unreflecting. 'l' he grand feature which distinguishes it, is its not being contagious or susceptible of propogation except by the actual contact of the virus. The variolone Inoculation, though it disarms the Small Pox of many of its terrors, spreads the contagion user a greater snrface, and indeed keep it constantly alive amongst us. continued and general diffusion of the disease by inoculation did away with all the advantages of the practice, and indeed it will be found that the mortality trout Small Pox was Ines cased by the introditc tion of Inacillation! Bet the inevitable consequence of the universal adoption of Vaccination will be the eradication of Nepali Pox altogether, an event which ~MI have happened ere this time. haul not the folly and criminality of some amongst us kept up the matter of infection, and Still continue to diffuse it through the country. Theee people justify this conduct by the followistg arguments which. though they have been refuted a thousand times, rise tip again with pertinaci ous obstinacy, and still auflitence the conduct of many. In the first place it is asserted, that Vaccination is not a certain security against Small Pox. In pima of this a few instances are given where that disease made its appearance after the Vaccine inoculation. Upon a careful and divas :donate examination of these cases it has been found either that the previous inoculation had been imperfect and failed to induce the genuine Cow Pock, or the subsequent disease has been the Chicken Pock, a complaint resembling, but very dif ferent from Small Pox. In a very few instances it is entitled that the Small Pox have occurred after the most satisfactory Vaccination. But those instances are proved to be at least as rare as those where the natural disease occurs after the ateillation of the Sinai' Pox itself, and therefore can form no greater objection to the one mode of Inoculation than to the other. As there are some pecietiar habits susceptible of Small Pox twice, so there are a few also susceptible of Small Pox after Vaccination. Now granting these few scattered cases, what a mass of evidence can be adduced of the one prevent lug the other! Thonsauds— hundreds of thousands, have been exposed to the contagion of Small Pox niter having had the Vaccine, and this with the most perfect impunity. Every means have been employed to communicate the disease but vi nitwit effect ; the security has been intim* perfect. It was impossible for the mimics of Vactinatimi long to resist this mass of evidence, hut they endeavoured to defeat its force by maintaining that its preventive efficacy only lasted for a time —dint the seem ity was not permanent, but after lea' years the former susceptibility to the Small Pox returned. In proof of this a number of execs were adduced of the Small Pox having occur red some years after Vaccination. 'rills pre. posit iult nos so opposite to all analogy and was so very unlikely lit itself, that all scientific men believed there must be some fallacy in these statements. However, an affair of this im portance wan ant to be decided by conjecture while there was an easy 1119(1s of ascertaining the truth with precision. Ac cordinely an Inoculation was instituted in different parts of the country, and in differeet quarters of the a mid, of those who had been vaccinated many years eget, and the result was exactly such as was to he expected. These trials proved in the most decisive manner the important fact,that the security which l'aceination affords continues for life. It is impossible Cots an unbiassed mind to resist this conviction, w Inch indeed is the necessary result of the experiment. NI ith regard to the instances of an opposite description that have been given, an inquiry into the circumstances attending them has done away with any authority they might claim. They appear all to be cases of Small Pox subsequent to that spurious disease which sometimes arises front an unsuccessful attempt to commniii cate the Cow Pox. And linked from the little attention that wan lir a linigjiine paid to the peculiar character of the af fection, it is no wonder that many instances formerly occui ed amid are S till occurring, alien a spurious disease only occurs 11010 Inoculation, and is mistaken for the genuine one. In none of the instances (except in a few already noticed) has the previous disease been proved by a proper test to have been ee.mine Cow Pock, and accordingly they ought not to diminidi our confid e nce in its preyetitive [towels. Alba the fullest investigation euirilucted with the utmost care and watched with the most jealous scepticism, the conviction has been forced upon all who are qualified to decide, that the power of the Vaccine Inoculation is at Icaskequal to that of the N'ariolotis, in rendering the constitution misu , ceptilile of any future attack of the Small Pox. This fact o Melt deter mines the whole controverey stands upon as brut grimed, mid is supported by as great a mass of evidence as any of those truths which are urevived by its as unquestionable, and Ile mist be grossly ignoraut or perversely obstinate, who resists the conviction of it. To the lower classes who are incapable, 01 have nut hie means of deciding un the matter, the prat tire of their superiors uueht to be a stitticieet guientee of its utility. When they see men distinguielird tot their allidty, who enjoy every opportmlity of acquit ing accurate information 011 the oihject of Vaccination, consentiseg ty ii.lopt it in their fami lies. and truetiug to lie efficacy in seriatim their children' , safety, they lass be Sate that there are good remains for its ailoptein and tau grounds for trusulig in its virtues. The conduct Mahe Futailty is also the cleanest proof of their con viciem en the salbject, and rioted to be a sufficient gearantee to others. It is Wadi to their credit that they base beet' the foicloost Its recommend and adopt the pi man e all over the would. It is wtll known how lts they profited by the dis. semination of the Small Pos, the treatment of which indeed often formed a considerable part of their income. But Vac. citation has cut of this source of etuolument and consequently 331 presents itself to the profession in no inviting character. Dr. Jenner's discovery indeed may be considered as a touchstone to detect what portion of selfishness alloyed the human heart. The result has been highly honourable to those who have stood forward the supporters of the new Inoculation ; who indeed are all that are distinguished for talent in the profession. It might have been expected that the various strong cir- eninstences that recommend the practice of Vaccination, would have secured its immediate and universal adoption.— Yet strange to say, the very country that gave this great dis oovery bit th, is the very last to reap its benefits ! Sinmalar perversity by which a people oppose the most %incontrover tible evidence, which promises them immunity from disease and death, while at the same tinie they are the dillies of the unfounded pretentinu of every illiterate quack who deals destruction aromiel him! In rain is this country called civili zed and enlightened —our knowledge is little more than ex ternal, while the great mass of our population are as ignorant as those of the most barbarous commies. There is this dike feresice, however, betwixt them; while the latter in proper distrust of their own judgments rely open the opinion and practices of those who are more capable of judging aright, and have been thus induced to consider Vaccination as the greatest blessing, many amongst us in the true spirit of perverse prejudice continue to disbelieve in its merits, sod hence we have derived less advantage trout it than any other - nation around us. lu the mean time the practice has extended with extraor . denary celerity to every portion of the world, and been re. ceived with that gratit u de it mer i te d ( mom t h e d e li g h te d i n. haltit,ints. People of all climates, languages, and religions, have nailed in hailing it as the boon of a beneficent provi dence, and joyfully embraced the prospect it afford. of free. ing them fermi their destructive enemy. The consequence bas been that in enmity of those regions the Small Pox, that formerly swept away thousands, and tens of thJusauds, has now totally disappeared, and is only known by the reorient. brance of its former ravages. This, while it is a proper aunt merited reward for having adopted Vaccination, is a manifest proof of its preventive powers, and confirms all that has been said in its favour. l shall conclude this essay by a brief recapitulation of the superior advantagesof Vaccination over the Susan Pox lame latloa. Fiist. It is devoid of any danger, producing a mild and harmless disease; whereas the inoculated Small Pox is neve* devoid of danger, and indeed is fatal to a great number. Second. It is not contagious; whereat. the inoculated Small Pox diffuses the poison all around it, and serves to perprta. ate the disease. Third. It farms as certain a preventive of the Snail Pox as the Varivious Inocnimiun. Fourth. It is followed by no other diseases; whereas the Small Pox has been suspected of bringing into action the Seri*hula and some other complaint,. These are established laces; and with these before their eyes it is singular to find many who iu other matters ate suf ficiently attentive to their children's wr Hare, preterring the Small Pox Inoculation. This conduct not only attee•• them selves but their neighbours, and therefore it is high time that sonic legislative enactment stronger than thusc now existing, prevented this unwarrantable diffusion of ■ disease that is scarcely inferior in fatality to the Plague. Mllittrlt AND BODUEKY.—Ths Lord Wellington packet, Cap tain Cheeseman, which came in, with twenty five passengers from Dieppe,on Wednesday, at Brighton, biinge an account of a ino.t horrible assassination, which was perpetrated two miles from silk, a few daysago :- A Mr. and Mrs. Phillips arrived in this town from London about three months since, having previously engaged a house on lease, near the bottom of Ship-street, which they hare since occupied. Mr. P. not along ago departed for France, leaving his wife and children here. At Dieppe, he engaged a person called Frederick, a Prussiar. who had married a Frenchwoman, and resided at Dieppe, as 1.i4 terpreter. Mr. Phillips lett Dieppe for Abbeville, where Frederick as to join hint, and he did so, bringing with him a small cabriol et , to convey them on their journey. They left Abbeville in the cabrio let together, taking the route fur Paris. The next day, the Paris mail coach, which puts up at the hotel at Abbeville, where Mr. Phil lips and Frederick stopped, brought a man's hat in. which had been picked up on the road , the inside of which was bloody. This excited been picked the police was applied to, and several persons were sent to examine the place where the hat was found, which was no more diaa two miles from the town. The suspicions in the end were verified. Mr. Phillips's hotly was found cold and stiff, the head literally crush ed flat, apparently between two stones that lay near him surfaces of which were bloody, and contained a portion of his rain. The body was borne to Abbeville; and Frederick appearing again there on the following day, he was seized and sent to prison. The subse quent investigation has disclosed that Frederick returned thesahria• let to Dieppe, where it had been hired, the day after he hail lett Abbeville, the seat of which and the bottom were stained with blood. It has also been ascertained, that in his progress to Dieppe, after the assassination, he left several articles of weining apparel in a bloody condition, together with a great coat that belonged to Mr. P. at las father in laws's. between Abbeville and Dieppe, When Mr. I'. left Dieppe, it is known that he had boo louis dins and 50 gold napoleons, &e. in his pockets. Upon searching Freder ick, 2510116; trors, two double and one single napoleon, were found upon him, which are believed to have belonged to the deceased. A violent struggle is supposed to have taken place, for, on the appre • hension of Frederick, it was found that the fingers of his left band were bruised and wounded, and other marks, as of violence, were seen also upon him. Frederick is not unknown at this place, he is said to be the the same person who was the Aewattl of the Union packet, but which vessel has not been on this station now for about three vein. - The remains of the untatunate Mr. Phillips were interred at Dieppe. Mrs. Phillips is confined to her house her by indisposition, and the, shocking catastrophe has not been revealed to her. •• fiort:MT:N T Aso) Dr t: 1..—0 n Wednesday morning, Miss S. a young lady highly accomplished, the daughter of a merchant de ceased. and who is entitled under her fittlier's will to a considerable fortune when she conies of age, quitted her brother's house, with witoiti she resided in the neighbour hood of Kennington, accompanied by a confidential female servant, and at a few yards distant from her house was met by a Captain C—, by whom she wiliattily seated in a postehaise and fiutr. The parties Men set oti full speed on a ma trimonial expedition, flattering the:list:hes that all their difficulties were at an end, and that the high road to hapi inee was opin before them. Unfommately for them, however, the news of their flight was quickly commutticatml to the brother, who was well aware tit the at tachment, and having obtained informatiot. of the toad they had taken, lost no time in commencing a pursuit. and succeeded in over taking them Si an Mn 15 miles from town, where tfiey were resting in imaginary security. The hither succeeded in si pirating the lovers, and brimjng the lady bask, but not till a warm altercation and a de fiance had passed betwein hint and the disapninttd lover, who, with the discarded abigail. returned to wan together. A Inc( t;ng has since taken piece bi tweeterie geothautn., in the fields at the buck or Kennington-common, whew the:, eteehanged shots, and Mr. S. nu , 4:clef-tilos adversary's ball in his right shoulder. The wound is not considered dangerous. - • - - - - - It is again rumoured to be the unalterable determination of tbs Minister to pay off the Navy Fives, giving the holders a ecitain pos. lion W . 3 per cent. Consols. with a bunua in Ea; miuct Bills.