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att I%_Ationar tumor • .•r.-..41 . 'i , ~ • 0. 1 ' li i i ' t ! . 14 R ; ~ -I ik i :1 ' 1 1 1. r+ r Our Sing, eottiltitution, anti Nab . i ' • . . SUNDAY, NOVEMBER It 1821. No. - 1,342.—V0L. XIV. 3 Puck; Sid. Till BARCELONA FEVER. It will shorten my days." I suspect he Faye but little time to the composition of the Msenotrs of his Life. Bertrand one day urged him to labour with more assiduity. "It is beneath me." said he, "to be the historian of my own life. Alexander had his Quintists Curlier, and I shall have mine. At all 111. Francois, a member of the French commission sent to Barcelona, has written a letter, dated Oct. 30, to M. Bertin,'s physician in Paris, from which we extract the following particulars relative to the disease;—" The contagion appears to shoat itself visibly. Its pois4l departure is marked, its pro gress foiloired ; it May be said that it is seen ptisailag from one individual to another. Those who devote their cares to friendship rarefy fail to pay dear fur their humanity. In a house inhabited by fourteen persons, all have been attacked, and eleven have died. The progress of the disease is often so rapid, that there is not time to try any remedy. The pa ti,nit dies as soon as he is taken ill. In general, however, the sickness lasts seven or nine days. It would require many pages to describe this terrible (aver, it presents so many anomalies and deceptious appearances. Sometimes the access is slight, and a deceitful appearance of convalescence gives confidence to the attendants at the moment the patient is ex. pirin , s. At other times the most terrible symptoms .e. manliest themselves at once, such as petechial spots, cellymoses, and jaundice. Blood issues from all apertures of the body. Fetid and diluted blood flows copiously from the tongue. The usual evacuations are black and sanious. What is vomited may, Mier dilation in water, be compared to the oxyde of man ganese. The body is cold as marble, and the puhe insensible. Involuntary cries are put forth, though the patient is in perfect possession of his mind, and so continues until the heart ceases to perform its functions. When the vital energy sinks, it cannot be again revived; the benumbing poison of the con tagion destroys it. The body of the patient then exhales miasmata, not perceptible to the senses, which attaches it to bedding, clothes, furniture, and even the walls of the apartments (as, from numerous facts, there is reason to believe), which were become capable of infecting individuals,more or lest promptly according to their predLposition. The disease appears to have its scut in the nervous system. It succes siveiy paralyzes the different viscera. The kidneys case their functions first. The body, which may be called a corpse still animated, exhibits all the symptems of decomposition. Some patients, after exhibiting all the signs of' complete dissolution, have by degrees returned to Efe, and have been cured. It rcq::ircs coura , ,e, 1 assure you, and the most perfect s.:ii-resignatioo, to approach and touch certain pa tients. The stomach appears to he the most In stant point of attack. It is subject to a kind of LTitation which is quite sui generis. Its state must not be confounded with a phlegmasia, though gan. grtnnus parts are ofteu found in its interior. There is no inflammatory appearance in the yellow fever. .kf:er the convulsive spasms which mark the com mencement, atomy soon takes place, and the extinc tion of life follows. At this moment the intensity of the disease appears to have abated, but still from tale to two hundred die daily. Scarcely a week ago the number was from two to three hundred." idjue. events, my life is recorded ittany achievements." Ilery, A short time berme his liblidybecame serious, *KY be abandoned biseve, Lad became farAtiii‘e with ehet every bodY. Ha s aes a high value - upanalkentsaa, 4. nd of but did not like him. He said to him one day at /oats. table, " Bertrand, it was not your attachment to k the me, but your love of glory that brought you to St. Helena—vou would immortalize your name as my Helena—ye _ your name as ,ay fulus Achates," the faithful companion of the hero pf the AL neid.) A little girl only nine years old, the daughter of a sergeant of the garrison, often : kept him company. He took great pleasure in sysaking to her, and on her coming, always kissed her on the cheek. He constantly provided himself with fruits or sweetmeats for her, and shortly before his death hung round her neck a small gold watch, and a gold chain. " Julie," said he, " wear this -fur my sake." With a pen-knife he graved on the cover, clumsily enough, it is true, these words.— " The Emperor to his little friend Julie." Ile sometimes amused himself in giving this child a lesson in drawing from the surrounding mountain scenery, with the most laughably whimsical figures and objects interspersed, His predilection for this child is extraordinary ; she had nothing interestin4 in her person, and was in capacity rather below the average of the little girls of her age. The 2d of April was the day on which he was observed to be seriously indisposed. He rose early, and walked in the garden. Ire, after a few minutes, ant upon a bank, apparently faint, Montholon went' up to bim, and asked him if he was taken ill. " Yes," said be, " I feel nausea and sick at stomach, the avant courier* of death." Count Montholon smiled. Buonaparte took his arm and said. "My friend, we must not laugh at death when be is so near us." The little Julie soon appeared, with a basket, and canght his attention. He brought her into the saloon, where breakfast was prepared, and filled her basket with different sweet things, adding a bottle of liqueur, with these words, " This is for your father to drink my he a lth." One day he sent for a jeweller to alter or repair some trinkets, and asked him if he could make a silver coffin. The jeweller tried to shift the question; Buonaparte repeated it, " I shall die (said he) in a few weeks." " God forbid that we should lose your Highness," said the other. " God grant that I may die soon—very soon," returned Buonaparte: " I am well con vinced that life is not a blessing, but a curse." He then approached a piano, touched the keys fur a few moments, producing wine vague but not inharmo nious movement, and ended with playing his fa vourite air— DUTCH MAIL. H.torE, Nov. B.—Lieut.-Co!. Taels Van Amer migen, Aide-de-Camp tei the Governor-General of the East India possessions, and Lieut. Koopman, of the navy, arrived here yesterday with the intelli gence of the successful issue of the second expedition aguinst the rebellious Sultan of Palemban, which was of so mueh importance to the maintenance of the Dutch authority in India. Os the 25th of June, Gen. de Kuck, to whom the chief command of the expedition was confined, made himself master, after au obstinate resistance, of the works in the river, which impeded the approach to ' the town. The General states, in his despi.tches of the 28th ofJune, that on the 26th he cast anchor Lefore the town, and that the Sultan Bade al deem, seeing no means of resistance, declared himself ready togive up the ~o vernrneot to his brother, nho tt•as on board the Ifotch fleet, and to surrender himself, on the t►ssar:mee Oast hi;; life would be spared. 'the General therefore hoped that he should sisal be able tn send the Sultan and his family to Batavia on` hoard the Drgerand frigate. The General bestows the highest.enci miurns on the bravery and perseverance of the st.diers and seamen. - . - The enemy had his chief force in the river near the island of Gombora. in the mouth of the river Pladjoe, on a low and marshy spot of gr9und. A battery was erected on the island. Between and the right bank were two floating batteries, anti ou the bank four batteries, one behind the other, the largest of which was at the mouth of the Pladjoe. These works were defended by 126 pieces of artillery which, as the evedt showed, the enentrkweW Wr well how to manige. The tab - bisnits' were _ defended by a &able palisade, under the command. the guns, and behind the palisade were armed boats. —lt appeared theretbre not adviseable to attack enemy's works by land. The first attack was on the 20th of June. At daybreak the ships of war took the stations assigned to them. The cannonade was extremely violent on both sides. In the forenoon the fire from Gombora began to abate ; one of the gun-boats had already penetrated through the palisade into the great river, and the General had already given orders to Lieut. Col. Kier to make an suck with 300 in boats on the last-mentioned battery, when unfortunately the cables of some of the ships of war were shot away, so that they drifted with the stream. This accident exposed the ranhemerf alone to the enemy's fire, and as this vessel had already 60 men killed and wounued, and several of her gun-boats were dis mounted, the General thought it adviseable to sus pend the attack. The second attack was made on the 24th of June. Befiae day-break the ships of war took their positions under a heavy fire from the enemy. At five o'clock the ships returned the enemy's fire; and at six the lire from the island began to abate. Col. Bischof made a successful attempt to penetrate with his troops in boats through the palisade, along the left bank towards the island; the battery was taken, and the flag of the Netherlands hoisted on the ene my's works. An attempt to attack the great battery in front was judged not to be adviscable, and the troops were therefore collected on the side of the island in order to cross the river behind it, and turn the batteries on the right. Meantime the Ajax and Venus had overpowered the floating l ttteries, which were taken possession of by Lieut, n den Ende, and after wards burnt. At nine o'clock the troops under Col. Bischoff began to cross the river. At half-past 11 Lieut. Lunge of the navy, placed our colours on the hindmost battery. The second and third were quickly abandoned by the enemy, who endeavoured to maintain himself in the first and largest; but the troops under Lieutenants Wegener and Van Styrum carried it by assault, and made themselves masters of this last and important position. I Here follows the names of the officers who dis tinguished themselves, and the statemeat of the killed and wounded.] The loss in the first action was—Killed 46, wounded 27. In the second action —Killed 29, wounded 140. Total (killed) 75; total (wounded) 237. 13*.TAVIS JULY 21.—The conquest of Palem bang has been announced by a salute of 101 guns. The cholera marks still rages dreadfully at Ban lam, the out-districts of Sourabaya and Passarouang. At Banlam, alma 100 persons die daily: in the two other placess above 170. '1 he number of deaths at Batavia, in consequence of this disorder, does not exceed five daily. Among them the Vanhermeif alone bad 17 killed and 63 wounded. To-day the guns have been fired on account of this joyful victory. • HAOUZ, Nov. 8... A private letter from Batavia of the 26th of July states that the cholera ntorbus was abating, audit was hoped that its ravages would soh cease. ANECDOTES OF BUON.IPARTE. Buonaparte for some time considered himself at tacked by an internal disease, which would prove ta:Al to him. lie sometimes me.ntioned it, accom panied with sombrous presentiments. But it w a s supposed to be nothing more than the wandering of an active imagination left unemployed. Some weeks before his death, he laboured with a spade in his warden so long and so severely, as almost to faint trom fatigue. Somebody suggested to him the pro bable in jury to his health :—" No," said he, " it cannot hurt my•health'-drat is lost beyond all hope. 66 0 Richard ! 0 mon Roi ! L'hinivenic eabandonne." He often stretched himself on a sofa opposite the garden window, and read with a loud voice from Telemachus, or the Henriad. lie inquired one day, with great eagerness, whether an English journal could be procured him. With some diffi culty a newspaper was provided. He took it and glanced over it hastily, and suddenly exclaimed— " Ali! Naples! Naples! poor devils—Murat was the bravest king they ever had: - but he did nut know his subjects. They are all Lasaroni from the Duke of —, down to the lowest beggar!" The morning of the day on which he died he said-- •' Death has nothing to atli•ight me. For three weeks death has b.ma the companion of my pillow. Now he is about to embrace me, and bear rue away for ever," Letters from Leghorn, Genoa, and Naples, state, that the public authorities of each of those places had adopted additional precautions to prevent the introduction of the fever s.) prevalent in Spain; tee communication:, thercC)re, between 1:uly ar.d that country may be considered us completely cut ,a, at least tbr some time longer. The trade with Turkey had somewhat increa s ed, under the supposition th a t Russia would not go to war with the Porte; but at Naples, on the tioth ult., reports had been received from the Morea, that the Russian force on the boa. of the I'ruth had Len considerubly ItugurauteLL r•