The National Register. — London, England, 1816-01-21 00:00:00

! JAR. 21. DISE ‘;ES 0 BY THE 1.41 - 3 DE. CLARKE. In investigating the reas4sns of the great mortality among chil dren. it ire quite impossible to conceive that it may not be tracel to some misininagenient of them; since it is utterly inconsistent with the on rain TiAiiesv of the. Creator to suppose that so many chil dren ;ire !)caught into the wo"ld only that they may die at an early period of their existence. The severity of the winters, the general variableness of Vie cli mate, and she i udrovideut exposure of young eli:Aren to cold, with out sufficient attention to clothin.4, lay the foundation of many di,. eates, which 'prove fatal to them kin some instances very rapidly), as peri;.n..iiiiionv amid iiiiiammacion of the mucous membrane of the trachea [the windpipe], Sec. The last, in its most violent state. has aciii:red the Italie of croup, whisk sometimes destroys in a few hours. If is a subject of very common observation, that children who have beon inured to enl , l, and brought up hardily (as it is called), are th. , strri.est in adult age, and this has induced many virents to expos: , their children thinly clad, to all the severities of wea ther. It ,s in p.irt true, since children who survive the seasoning, are generally strongest. The original strewth of their constitu tion probably e .abled them to bear it in the first instance; and, if they ary able to encounter it.in early life, they will lose in some men sure the sitsceptinslity of being readily affected by changes of tem peratureafterwards. But all medical men, who have had opportunities of attending much to the diseases of children, twist have observed that those fa milies in which children are least exposed to cold in winter, arc generally most healthy, whilst those who act on the erroneous prin cipl.• of hardening them by the e•posure t!L:ir tender bodies to severe weather, are scarcely ever free f r o m di sease o f some ki nd. . Disorders, whichi might otherwise have retnain , A dormant, are thus brought into activity by this mode of treating children ; and many fall sacrifices to pulmonary consumptions and scrophulous complaints in more advanced life from this error alone, of being exposed in childhood to cold, with the intention of being strong and hardy. The present fashion of clothing young children, founded upon the same erroneous notion of hardening them, is also very injurious to their health. Their arms and chests are entirely uncovered. They generally wear no stockings at all; and, from the stomach • downwards, they are almost in a state of nakedness, even in winter. To rebut the force of these observations, this question has been often asked, " What becomes of the children of the poor ?" This mode of getting rid of a difficulty by putting a question is very easy, and very imposing upon ignorant persons, who have bestowed little attention on this subject. But, if they will inquire, they will find that comparatively few of the children of the poor are reared ; and, that a large proportion of the deaths in the bills of mortality are among the offspring of this extensive class of the community, especially in large cities and towns. t heir death, however, makes no noise, and therefore little impression, on account of the obscu rity of their station : whilst an unfavourable case of the cow-pox, especially if it occurs in a family of distinction, rinks through the whole island with every possible agg rava ti on and misrepresentation which artifice or tally can suggest, to deceive the timid, the igno rant,and the credulous. In large cities and manufacturing towns, bad air, crowded apart ments, want of cleanliness and inattention, become additional causes of disease and untimely death. The following proof of the present depression of landed pro perty is an absolute fact. A few years ago a gentlemen pur. chased an estate for 40,0001.; 20,0001. of which he* immediately paid, and the other moiety of the purchase-money remained on mortgage ; this the mortgagee some time ago called in, and the owner of the estate not being able to remove the incumbrance, a foreclosure took place, and the estate again came to the ham mer, when the whole was knocked down for no more than 20,0001. although more than 50001. had been expended by the unfortunate mortgagor. • The Boston Paper says, " Last week a hare, which was hat d pressed by the hounds, fled into the house of the Rev. M Butcher, of Ropsley, and, running up stairs, was followed by her pursuers, and killed under the bed of the Rev. Gentleman. The Wortsmen presented poor puss to Mr. Butcher as some compen satiou for her abrupt intrusion, 81).3 SINGULAR ADVENTURES OP A WEDDING DAY. [riitom AN IRISH PAPER.] DUKE -STREET POLICE OFFICE. A young couple who had been married by special ficense it Mark's Church, at eleven o'clock on Wednesday se'nnight, had their connubial felicity most cruelly interrupted by a visit-from is messenger of this Office, who gave them an invitation to appear before the Magistrates inganter. The circumstance which pros duced this unpleasant interruption were as follow young man, of the name of Doyle, applied at the Office sylth a warrant signed b 3 Hyacinth Daly, Esq. Mayor of Galway, for the appre hension of two persons, against whom informations had been swore by a ropeanaker, of Galway, of the u une o f John Lecke, for hay mg robbed him of upwards of eighty ponnils in gold, dollars, sil ver spoons, &e. One of the persons, Jane Lecky, was his daugh ter, the other James Parker, his apprentice. Love, that ruling passion, had taken such possession of their hearts, that they nut being able to obtain the old man?s consent, determined to tly to a temple of Hymen in this city; and on the Saturday night follow ing, et the midnight hour (always propitious to runaway lovers,, they drove oft' in the Galway Mail, leaving the old gentleman in the arms of &minus, little dreaming of what was then passing. Mr. Doyle, who was a grandson of the old luau's, was tlia per son sent in pursuit, and so completely did he execute the ohject or his mission, that he traced them to a house in Boyne-street, °ern pied, it watild seem, by a cowl!) of the lady's, whose name wa' Jolla Lecky, Having got his warrant, he repaired to the di,eo vered retreat, accompanied by Turpin, the peace-onlecr. foand the happy party just returned from Church. Leci.y and his wite. with the bride and bridegroom, were brought to the office, when it appeared that the day before Parker and John Lecky had gaffe to procure a license, and that when they had appeared before the ; • Rev. Mr. Lewis, the Surrogate of the Consistorial Caurt,LN:ky hail sworn himself to be father to the girl, and that in that character. lie had given his fall consent and approbation to the match. Al-, though the journey, the license, and the marriage fees, has cost no small trifle, they utterly denied any knowledge of the property. taken; upon which Turpin was again dispatched to Boyne-street, to search their trunks, and speedily returned with 52 guineas, and one half in gold, a considerable number of dollars, twa table, and six silver tea-spoons, with a silver watch, which Doyle said, are swered exactly to the description of the property missing, with only a deficiency of ten pounds. The Magistrates, after some consultation, Ist. gave the young bride up to her nephew, who seemed to be many years older than herself, tinder a promise ih t she should spend the night in the mail, travelling to Cialway-2dly, Sent the bridegroom to Bridewell, as a runaway apprentice, until the old gensle:nan's determination in regard to him is known—and 3dly. Ordered the would-be-father to Newgate, for a flintier exa mination in regard to the peijury—and thus ended the ad veutuvzs of the Wedding Day. EXTRAORDINARY MARIN ANIMAL. [FROM AN AMERICAN PAPER.) ALEXANDRIA, Dec. 9.—The brig Trio, Captain Cleveland, QS her passage from Gibraltar to this port, on the 23tb ofOctober, in lat. 31, long 20, passed a substan ce i n t h e water a b out 23 or 30 feet from the vessel, which, from its extraordinary appearance, induced the Captain to tack ship, with a view to examine what it was; the wind bring light from the W.S.W. caused the boat to be lowered down, and sent the mate with two men to make discovery, On their return, they gave the following description :—" When we Caine in sight of the before-mentioned substance, turned the boat and tacked her stern nearly over him, then about four feet under water, lying quoiled up with his head on the top of the (poll; the head being pointed, and about twelve or fourteen inches iu length, with upper and lower tushes or teeth, app eare d f rom t h ree to four inches outside, the jaws shat within each other, appeared curvety like the tush of a hog, and extremely white. His body had the appearance in size of about three to three and a half feet in cir cumference, tapering towards the tail, and his colour was of the deepest crimson. and reflected the water some yards round. The boat being to leeward of the reptile, the little wind and sea, will!, they stood viewing him, drifted it off about 30 to 40 feet, the mate then concluded to hook him; the noise of the oars at the first stroke started him, he threw himself out at his length, with his head to wards the boat, and came very near, raising himself nearly to the surface of the water in an attitude of attack ; it was judged best to make for the vessel. His length could not have been less than thirty or forty feet, and we judge him to be ialermangappearondp ti tc a sea serpent." THE NATIONAL RFG