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I • • • 7 I 1 : : , hi,. PPMAJF • p ~ 5 ' _ LITERATURE. Est Clete pretium co rawest. ~'' '. A i t ) i\ °I • ,' 1_ '. w, r fib FACTS AND OBSERVATIoNS RESPEC ; TINGTIIE AIR PUMP, VAPOUR-RATH, AT. &e. By RALPH BLEGBOROUGIII bt a • (Continua.) Large portions of the lithiet* of lime, are also, •during this precess, frequently removed, and would. in every instance, I am persuaded, be prevented from forming by a timely application of it. This sub etance, which ought to be deposited it the home, but from the v..calmess of the vessels destined to perform this office is net suffered to reach its destination, eolleas in such quantities as to bolster up the joints of ( the toes and ankles, so as to render them coin pktely anchylose. This matter, by an uniform ac tion kept up on the part for some time, and fre quently repeated by well-regulated applications of the machine, is, in a • great measure, dispersed, and limbs rendered useful which couhi not be 'effefted by any other means with which we are acquainted. The paroxysms are placed at a greater distance, and thus the second intention is also powerfully aided by this application es The aaion of the disease is suspended, while all the other remedies may be employed in turn. The principal one, with this in tention, is a radical and systematic change of the; mode of living whiets originally induced it. The miserable patient must retrace his step.; ; but this must be done gradually, and with great caution. The exciting causes. must he referred to, and their undue aaierras gradually diminished as it was in duced. The advice of old Dr. Pitcairn to the llighlaiad chieftain, who had been in'the habit of drinking a . large goblet of whiskey every day, and who was de sirous of leaving it off, ought to be attended to , namely, " That he should melt as much wax every day into his goblet as would admit the impressier of his seal :" by which means the quantity of the whis kw' was diminished daily, and the habit got rid of inlhe best possible manner. The ingenious, but refortimate Dr. Brown, rue .sued a cHfcrent plan. Supposing the enemy might • be subdued by a colip-ds-main, he boldly pushed as are. medytne concentrated force ofthe causes ofthe disease On this rock he split, and expiated his fate i a me lancholy proof; !hat when great genius falls into er rors, those errors are frequently not of a trivial na ture A proof also, that he, who certainly surpassed nn kind in genius, either mistook his own duarine, or, what is infinitely less to the crcdit of humanity, was not able to resist those habits which never fail of producing the same catastrophe I Higher stimu lants than usual may for a time give relief, hut even tually produce greater debility ; and the example of • Dr. Brown ouzit to operate as a negative one for ever. The deceitful, injurious, and mischievous cilia' of the Portland powder, I should have considered as uenecessary to have mentioned here, had not the ingenious and venerable Dr. Heberden declared his dissent from those who ascribe to it. thnguous ef fea s.t Wcrlboff,t a German, and first physician to his late Majesty, for Hanover, condemns bitter reme dies in the gout, and is supported in the opinion by hlarray,f the Gottingen professor. 1)' ,!fors Cullen, Darwin, and Falconer, of Bath, strenuously support the sentiments of the latter, and adduce unequivocal proofs of the bad effeCts of bit ters. "In every instance," says Dr. Cullen in his Practice of Physic, sea. 557, " which I have known of their exhibition, for the length of time prescribed, the persons who had taken them were, indeed, free from any inflammatory affection of the joints, but they were afterwards affeaed with many symptoms of the atonic gout ; and all, soon after finishing their course of medicine, have been attacked with apo plexy, asthma, or dropsy, which proved fatal." In a later publication, he observes, " It is possible that several persons may have taken the Portland pow der and other bitters with seeming great advantage, but I have not hail opportunity to know the sequel of the whale of such persons lives, so .is to say posi tively bow fat, in any case, the cure continued steady for a life of some years after, or what accidents har to their health. But I have had occasion te C e v i e l , or to be exaclly informed, of the fate of niee or ten persons, who had taken this mealcine for the time prescribed. which is two years. These persons had been liable, fur some years before, to have a fit of regular or. very painful . inflammatory gout, and particelarly when they had completed the course prescribed, had never a regular fit, or any inflamma tion of the extremities for the rest of their lives. In no instance, however, that I have kown, was the health of these persons tolerably entire. Soon after finishing the course of their medicine, they became valetudixtry in cliff . .. Tent shapes, and particularly were much afilliCted with dyspeptic, and what are called nervous complaints, with lowness of spirits. In every one of them, before a year had pasacd, after finishing the course of the powders, some hydropic symptoms appeared, which, gradually increeiing in the form of an iscites, cr hydrothorax, especially the latter, joined with anasarea, in less than two, or at rnost, three years, proved fatal. 'These accidents happeeing to persons of some rank, became very generally known in this country, and have prevented all such ex.perimeuts*ince.ll • Were it t.ecessary to adduce farther proof, So ranus, among the ancients; might he mentioned, as hearing testimony. that these remedies were then held in nu better estimation than at prtstat. A steady adherence to an abstemious and regular -.course of diet, entieisting of milk, vegetables with an admixture of animal food, of the mildest kind, seems to be the only plan co be depe;dcil on for a radical cAze -of the gout. • Vid. F.xamen des ttperiences dr des o.,seTvat.nns nou ',lles de M. Pf iron. sur !CS Coucretidie UtintUres, Sec. de thuttune, par Mons. Fotuvrov. ft vales dr Chin:lie, vol. xxvii. t Puivis Portlan(liens pre se fent ague adversui uuumque prodiesse ; neqw st.gaverint 11 , ,iusmodt medtpainenta, clout cum opii, atillOpta, * le at ty,us iucrit, tiLtfi punt prztentissitus antartltrititxt panto- et entibeurnatica remedirt. Sed ex tiimitchorttm asparks.itium tau, fermentnm sto• suachi viva iirbllitsturti eve metulni, sp?etiturn euniserite, e;t,qe man concuxerwt, utortern •fiinc pottus gluon i etnitateist accet.ssz.nt ; tuatique rt tnriu%ti remetlit saves dede- • eat pada.. Cent. Mud. p. 346. pu;vere Arthritleo mte:ti A ..oplciain, paaltsin vel morbos aeutoe, send • pte-cipu::, conttaxenint. k.t in }tontine suutient ertbritioqui , letn intlesaima, sed respirstioLtUrtis, •' tb %itca, mcirique suhitinessuecessitit überettlislittleiontus post • znortent touspte its. • • Murray,' qui. i p ti. p. 65, t MA. tot. It . rits,tritElbardf., D I RDRY.LAIVE. Ting EI'ENINC; writ Lou prestualiil a New Hilmar PLty, ill Three Ads, rw/ Ind THE HERO OF THE NORTH. The Overture:tad 'Mosip cn niinstri and Mewled by Mr. Kelly. Cltarat.nt by Pve. Mr Wrought:ln, Mr. Kent, : Mr. Ravmon , i, Mr. Dowtoa Mr IS il•ii4vrt lorr• Mr. Dc Camp, Cmultivid, Sed;twtck, Mr. Grint:thli, Mr. ( il:;.•nist Mr. Fi4lwr Mrs. Young, hits. 14 °"litad i t M"TijloreH, MISS Nleitage, Mn.* Riatul, Mari Tyrer To which will b • mkt .4, THE SULTAN. Te-morrow, Th.: !two of the N..irth, with the taidel. 0 T.l it aep, Svlr. Cooper will perform Nl..x.ieih; W i.thich will be add d I) n Jcaa. THEATRE-ROT - AL. COPENT-GAI?I)F.N. Tuts tv ENING. w ilt be p.ineyrieeeil a Nes., Culioely ca.iy4l 301-IN BULL; Or, AN E.NGLISHMA:N s TIRE. IDE. The ,win...irral Char tAters. by Mn Lewrs Mr. At, Mr. raweo% Mr. Johostoni., Mr. Mr. 4rl, Mr. Mrs (;1:,4%, Mrs Mr snport, and Ms 11. Johnston. Protergste to Ya lioriken by Mr. /1. ii iton. With aLy rival Epilegue b; Mr j o hnawaz. I• which wi 1 b. aLI it, PAUL ANI) VIRGINIA. The New ealescl John nr„%et Englishman - 4 Fire-S:4le, 'acing riclivei with a,oplataie erie:tey eaoquallerd, it will be rep.mtal celery Eveitine till further notiae THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, MON DAY, M k titcm 14. It was yesterday reported, that Government had received dispatches from 4..0rd n• OR T ' l , on Saturday, relatlve to the .:bject matter in dispute bltween the two countries. We do not believe that any communieetion whatever was received on Sa turday, or yesterday, from Paris ; and as to a defini dye answer, none such was, or could be, expefted. In the course of the diplomatic discussions with France, since the Treaty of Amiens, it is *lost superiluous to say, that many unforeseen dif ficulties have arisen, and nutty obstrtglioas have started up in the way of its execution.—Many of these have been either blinked, conceded, or sur mounted ; and the two countries are at length come to an issue upon a point, which both parties appear to have equally at heart, In this rocess of diplo ma!ic pleading, Ministers hove aged with caution and with vigour. O:t Taesday their definitive resolve was sent off to i'rance, and the no tice of Warlike preparations has been so simed Rs to reach the Fit SI CONSUL. before he could give his deqnitive answer. That answer is not expe,Eled until to-naormw or Wednesday. It will be given with a full ',knowledge on the part of the FIRST CeestiL, of the spirit, energy, and feeling of this country. He cannot Ilead, after such a notice as the Kt sio's Message, our vote of additional 10,000 seamen, and ad our warlike preparations, repeated concessions had deluded him into the idea that he had no reason to dread a refusal. He is now fully apprized of his situatioa. His answer will be given not in ignorance of our teenier, but with full notice of our preparations; and terrible will be the re sponsibility of the party whOshall prove to be in the wrong ! The suet id dispute is generally believed, in the best-informed politica cirdes, to be the Island of Malta, hut not in the narrow a-:. isolated point of view in which s;;me of our cotemporaries alrc2 to see it. They look at the island as a fat mer would; they consult its soil, its number of acres, its probable ' produce. Nothing can, be mere preposterous. — The fair and liberal way of putting the case is, " Shall thcareaty of Amiens be executed or not ?" By a stipulation of that treaty, Russia was to gua . rantee Malta; but there was no security that Russia would guarantee Malta, nor any compulsory process provided to oblige her to undertake that task. We quarrelled with the Emperor Paul., on account of Malta, and in our viewof Russian politics,we concluded his successor would be glad of any opportunity that ehould bring him in contact with the Mediter ranean : That he would be proud to interfere in the business of Malta; and if he could not be its pos sessor, to be at least its guardian. The present Em peror has sltcwn, however, that he will not be marked with the appearance, without the possession of this golden fruit ; nor does he seem to inherit that won derful longing for it, which distinguished his father and predecessor. Notwithstanding all that has been stated to the contrary in the French Parrs, we are assured, and we do believe, that the Emperor of Russia has refesed, and still continues p refuse to guarantee Malta. In this situation of afairs, France calls upon England to .evacuate Malta ; and the English government answers, that it is ready t 6 do so, but upon the express condition of the previous undertaking by Russia to guarantee that Island. — Much therefore as the First Consul has enforced, and rigid as he would sled to appear for the literal execution of the treaty of Amiens —the whole treaty of Amiens, and nothing but the treaty of Amiens, we here find him endeavouring to violate one essential part of its express cotalitions in one of its Most,essagial parts. The changes which have taken place upon the Continent since the signing of the Treaty—the extension of the influenee of France over Europe, but particularly over that' part of it which might have an effeftupon the fate of Malta, .require, on our part, cxtruordinary precaution, with regard to that island. Without the guarantee of Bahia, it is the univer-11 opinion, that Malta • • moat become a. French garrison. Still, how ever, with an anxious wish for accon.modation, and with a sincere desire to preserve the peace, Ministers would, we believe, be happy to adopt any adequate security in / the place of that which Russia has refused to grant. In that spirit, and with that view, we understand, Ministers have required some explanation from the Fiasr Corm:L. upon the subjea oldie independence of that island, and the substitution of some other mpde of securing it ; to alt which, the Fl IiST CO sset has declined, conGn:n2; to the dry an 3 simple answer, that by th TT enty of Amiens wr undertook to evacuate it, and that it does not bind hint to holt, lot a new guarantee in tile event of the refusal of I',ussia. NVe understand he h-Assaid,and his late Manilt-to corrobora - es uur information, that he would consider cur refusal to evacuate that island a declaration of war arid we believe ths English :vernme:lt has answered, that we shall not eva cuate it provisim for its independence in of that es:p7e;sc , d in the Treaty of Amins. To this the upon the sttbjes are at length co.-.1c , , and tiFon chi: is to be given the final an Aver, is now lookM for with SA rinch aux iety. Another 'important piece of intelligence has been communicated to us, which, if true, must prove a source of hoce and tpo.idence.---o is said, that the RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR at Parii has declared, in the iv.rne of his Sovereign, that he should consider the landing of a French soldier in the Turkish do, minions, a.: a commencement of hostilities ou the part of France. The circumstances that led to this declaration, we do not profess to know. That the Fr RST CONSUL lately meditated the execution of some plan respdting 'Ftirliey, is generAlly believed. SERAS.• TIANIIS pro:fet of prote4ion to the ileys inEgypt, the declaration in the txpose of she Republic, that the Ovrom au PoaTE is wavering; these, and many such particulars, would lead one to suspe& that he has some new design, perhes some new constitution for that quarter. We are far, however, from de vouring with a greedy • eve -3( tale that is told of the ambition, the rapacity, and perfidy of the FIRST Cuasot of Vra9ce. One anecdote will suffice to chew how far ingenuity or misrepresentation are able to suceed in gaining for the wonderful and the extravagant, when Boirsrsourz is the subjeft. In a company at Paris last summer, at which Mr. Fox and the First Consul were present, the conver sation twined upon Polygamy and Monogamy.— The First Consul, .proud of stewing himself. a casuist and mo Al p. ilo2apher, took an :relive part in the discussion of the question, which of the two states lei fittest for mankind. After the argument was exhausted, the First Consul said o Chen it appears, that Monogamy is fit test for the West, and Poly,,Tamy for the East. The right way then would be to div'ele the world into two families, the Eastern and the Western families." Spch we are credibly informed was the actual conversation, and an innocer. eit was.,—We all, howevar, re member what a load of misrepresentation and ca lumny has been heaped upon it ; bcs it has been tortured and twisted into an express intent of making all the world one family, of which he meant to make himself the head. How ti,e changes have been rung out of doors upon this const rt.baion, and how it has been echoed even within the walls of the Senates, arri alt this upon the involuntary mistako of a person whohap pened to be present, aad to know just French enough to comprelied 9-10ths of what pass - ed in conversation. But do we therefore say, that BONAPARTE is not ambitious ? that he does not wish to carry the name and power of France to a height incompatible with the freedom and prosperity of every other country on earth, particularly England? We say and be :ieve no such thing, but we wish to see him fairly,. to represent him fairly, and pot to wantonly irritate a temper he.aile in its nature, incompatible with our uwn ends and interests. It was certainly with a view to do away those eagerly-fomented prejudices that Mr. Fox drew so mild a pidureof the Fi nsv CONSUL, when 40 represented him as merely " a conirigrcial rival." His recent speeches upon his MAJESTY'S Message show (for no new lights have broke upon his mind) that he considers France a rival of En gland, as a powerful and inticpendvat A Morning Paper of Saturday s:u•?, " It is not generally known, but it is a fio, :hat Government haye discovered 'tinted addresses flout Amnia O'Cia,.4 suit, now circulating in Ireland, in which he explains and justifies his condu6i, and confidently speaks of emancipating his country."—Upon this; authority alone, a very general report prevailed in the course of the day, that such was the {aft. Vie have reason, however, to believe, that it is without foundation.-4nrill:R O ' CONNOR was not in Paris, or even in France, at a time when it could have been foreseen that the subsisting discussions alluded to in his l'.lajesty's Message, would take this present sudden turn and hostile ap pprance. I Ip ,is now, and .vas then, in Italy, in company with nn English fami:y of siiginEtion. 'the 10th regiment from Egypt, and the 13th from Malta, are orderedlo Gibra2tF, to repl'ice the '2d, battalion'of the Royals, and the 25th regiment (the corps iecen.tly discredited by the ;editions con, duct ofd few of t; , •ir members), which are ordered home. It was reported yesterday, that the change was to be univ , :ts.ti, and that of the remainder r.„f the Garrison, come would be sent to M..lta, and some to the West Indies. His Roy4l Highness the Doke of KENT, is certainly to return ; and though the command devolves upon General BARNARD, will b eventually succeeded by Gener4 Tijo.q2l Yesterday all was bustle at the Admiralty ; the Board sat a considerable time. Lord GA 'taste attended. The Telegraph was constantly at wort. We under,stand the battalion of the Guards daint duty at-Winehster, is ordered to London. Saturday a Court of I)ireZtors was held at the East India tlouse, which aeljouroed at three o'clock till Wednesday next. The Lapwing sailed on Friday from Yarmouth, on a cruise.:—The press at that port has not be , Jl so successful as on other parts of fop coast, hut a num ber of usei4 hands were taken from the differeet ships, in the harbour. Several seamen were impressed on Friday nig!' last, cotnigg from the. One Shilling Gallery of Dre ry-Lane Theatre. A Gang, it seems, had tracc4 the greater part of them from Wapping to a house in Wych-street, where they'were informed, th.c_ the objetts of their search were zone to the Play ; the Gang waited patiently until the entertainment was over, and then seized them as they came out. The Butchers in the different market; have forze t ed themselves into separate bodies, to prevent being impressed. They have some of their party always • on the watch for the approach of a press-gangotho l in case of. danger, are to give the alannty striking a cleaver with a marrow-bone, on which they iromet diately assemble, and afford mntital assistance. Upwards of seven thousand seamen hay ready been obtained by thp impress in the Metroi..olis, verpool, Bristol, Hull, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Deal t Yarmouth * &c.—the Peace Establishment, however, ,we understand, to be considerably deficient pf the appointed cotnplpment. Several large detachments of Marines have beau dispatched from Plymouth to I)artmoni .1 arc Modbury, on the impress service. Ihe Admiralty Messenger, who brought the orders from town, rived in thirty-t,wo A messy - ;e was yesterday sent to all the Peers town, requesting their attendanc.2 this clay in the 11:-use of Lords, Tespeding the Prince ci tattsts establishment. The cruisers belonging to the Boards of Excise and Customs, are employed under adiniialey order in facilitating the manning the navy. It is rumoured at Canterbury, that a large parlc of artillery is again to be formed at thi,t city. Tkie mlih from France, Gcrmimy, and HpllaTt . ct continue. due, and we were yestere. y without t9y communication from the Ccuminent or Ireland . On Stinda7 the 6th . 11st. were marrietl, at New.- ctstl,?-on-Tyne, Mr. NontE, of the Newcastle alp 4 Durham Theatres, to Miss Pnvxs., a young Lady of the most amiable dispos.tion, and a very prumite. • ing AEtre%i, part , cularly in the line cf spiritpd CO. meiy. Mrs N. is daughter of Mrs, Mi;RRAT ( a fotmer husband) and sister tp Nrl. 4+onp*s, pf Covlntriktrdeu Thestre, The public are soon to be presented with the HiP : tory of the Maroors, a race of people of chum we have heard niuch, and bitlp.:rto have known but little. The work, we understand, is written by Mr. DALLAS, a Gentleman Already well, known in the literary world, and who resided some years in slat. malca, in a legal capacity Several of the Volaiitver Associations are , vain assembling ; and we doubt not, should occission quire their service, the patriotic corps which hotly did honour to every part. of the empire, will again stand forward in its defence. The report of Gen ANDREOSSI having reduced part of his establishMer.t, and made other arrange, meats prepar4tory to his quitting the country, is un - founcki. The Funds, on Saturday, were rather lower than on Friday, and the prevalent opinion in the City ta r chned to war. Policies were (oed on the sul;jel t and one person offered 75 guineas to receive 100, it hostilities took place before the Ist of May. Letters are preparing at the War Office, in some degree similar to those already issued from Lord Hobart's Ofc, requiring the Lord Lieutenants of Counties to make the necessary arrangements for the early as,embling the Militia. It is mentioned that a third part only of these corps is to be called out. General DUNI) AE, with a view to provide for the support of the Dutch troops on theft. -arrival a . , the Cape of Goed • Hope, as well as for that of the Bri.: tish garrison there, caused all the sweat in th- dis,- triCt to be at in requisition, allowitg the ta , to retain no more than was necessar;tor the supply of their families to the .rust Jay of the present year persons guilty of disobedience, hesitation, or delay, were subjected to a penalty of 1000 dollars, and confiscation of the property in question. The Dutch commissaries were at the same time employed in making cnntratls for the supply of the Batavian mops all ships. The troops which formed the garrison at Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, have proceeded to Ceylon. The dgartmpt of Foreign Affairs at Berne, is constantly occup:ed • with preparing passports. — Young n. •n leave the country for Eagland, where the military service.promisei great advantages. E.xtrad fro n Marquis WE 1. LESLL V'S Minute se Coo cil; .lug. 1 8, 1800, on the New College at Calcutta. Fortunately for the objects of the institution, the Governor-General has found at Calcutta two Cler gymen of the Church of England,'eminently quali tied to discharge the duties of Provost and Vice Provost. To the former office he has appointed Mr. BROWS, the Company's first Chaplain; and to the latter, Mr. Beciiar;A:t. Mr. BROWN'S character must be well known in England, and particularly so to some Members of the Court of Directors ; it is in every respect such as to satisfy the Governor Gene ! rat that his views in this nomination will not be dis appointed. He has alb bailed the highest expec tations from the abilities, learning, temper, and mo rals of the 11ev. Mr. BUCHANAN, whose character is also well known in England, and particularly to Dr. Polir.r.us, Bishop ofl.ondon, and Dr. MLoaa, Master of Queen's College, in .the University of Caenbalgs. • !Ina. 1