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.#.l. and the consolidated fend ettuld he secured giving it a credit in the War Taxes. Mr. HUSK ISSON then moved a clairse, to the . Vire° he before mentioned, and to teep this account separate from that of the surplos tif the Cohsoli. I date' PAW*. which was agfeed m, end the 13&11 or- I (lett tikbit read a third time toeitorrow. The resohitions it the Committee for eietting a Ligheatuese en the- Bell Reck. in Scotland, were Ispeed to, and a Bill uttered to be brought in upon them. , .. .. . 7 VACCINf INOCiIiAtION. • , Lora W PETTY said, he !mein pursoanee•of I anti he gave a few days before. for. the .purpcoe el tellies the attention of the House to a suejeet ileheth must be allowed to be of infinite importance, ssd which he did with the greater pleistee, as it Wal not 10 the least connected with any political, Oftenitteintions. 'He would not detain the House be • glen e e Into the history of Vaccine inoenesticie. fir Wiiett the world was indebted to. the perseveting la- Iscier,irodotry, and application of, Ili very eminent . physlcian.eWhese ptencepal detention was employed .11I'iti for the since oeshiny years, and who, by a "11 and getid(al pregress,eappity brought it to the Rate lit whicle it now was.- II was in the year,l79B, ehetettelentleman he alluded to 1 llt. Jenner), made. • IwllAl i tritit of England; a discovery. which bid fair peOwedioote the dreadful and fatal malady or the . • . 4 „ dii i , - • •It was fist ietrodaced into prAelice, as • 1— b t ifeleie Sw•Erigland, in the year 1;98. and in' :. ' was gerierally adopted in Amelia ; and producesttliehappiest effect., not only in the Pieced sled other colonies, hut also amongst the numerous tribes of Indians. Its the year IWO and 1101 it was *decried by. the trarieus,.nations of Europe. Our Commander in Chief on the • Mediterranean menus gay* it all the ire conragettiliot in his power, and it generally prevailed throughout dee whole lire don et Naples. and many of the osier illitelid help. The hmpise of RUSSIA and the . Kingdoilil. !bests selepted it in the like Manner, and it would peloprlme eullciect for him to !Irate the beneficial t e:l= e 'teas it produced in the dominions of of Aastria.• Before this discovery. the mortality occasioned by the smell pox, and infection with the vatiolosts matter, was 63.1 annually in Vi cente Ia the year 1802, whoa thin practice was tine inwodoced there. the deaths by this disease Were only 27; and in 1604, they were reduced to only teeeserbklr ems a saving, in that one capital, of 833 lion alieally. This he confessed to.be the eircum- Manotellsich made the strongest impression upon his ellelod." in favour of the vaccine pt.:take, which 'Aso lausid• Ks way to India. where 1100,000 wet* preserved by it ; and at considerable expence k.waa stletehernieledend now generally prevailed in China. A *am hdoeitede, *melancholy reflection. that, while able ft was embraced with avidity in the iledde smite*, it wesfailing off in this country, ‘4l4lBll l ll l lsleGrst produeed,on account of the impedi =opposed to it. and the along objections of psMemional people. He would not. at pre tties e any opinion as to the force of these a. but take the liberty of stating to the - - fact !Yell deserving of attention. Before . ithummy. the number of deaths annually e ..... the ravages of the smali-poa. was 1811 I and after this practice obtained. in 1804. they wise reduced to 622; hut. in consequence of the . prejudices and ohjeeion. fromulgeted ITlnet if. th e pre tice had retrograded ; and, in S, the deaths again increased to 1685. In this wlew * certainly, the subject was me which claimed the attendee of the Legislature. He was far, how. ever, .from proposing any thing which could be coo , Mined is iempulsnry I for, in all matters of physic. as well as science, the Legislature would pause, be fore it adopted ary general law which should ins, yes! upon the people rules whieh• would interfere Issith their option to provide for their health as they then.glit propel ; bat he also thought it the duty e 1 Parliament to tube means for enlightening the pub lic on this subject and to glee it all the sanction and promulgation which the countenance of that law ereeed 'eternity Carry with it. For this poi pose, he moved an i•urnble address to His Majesty, " that he would be graciously pleased to give directions to His Royal College of Physicians, to inq u ire into the state of Vaccine Inoeulatien in the United Windom, and report their opinions thereon; and also to inquire into. and report upon, the causes that have retarded its general adoption." This report he hoped would be ready to be presented by the OMR Session ef Parliament ; after-which, if he should thee bevy the honour of filling the same office, Ss Ise matfett) doubt that the report would be a eermisoration of the good et.els of the praetice, he ,Meld propose to make it public. and giee it the , Oast ottesteive citculatioa. After that, it would be for I :the Hemet to topsider what additional compensation 11164fild be made to the •author of this invaluable dist:emery, in a manner worthy of the liberality . sod chandler of this great nation, and of the Isomesse-oati national glory which was attached to , to nepotism. an improvosent. Mr. MATTHEWS led. he rose with much sari tithe/inn to snood thiensotion of his Noble Friend.'; lie bed paid great attrition to this mode of inane." hues*, amd his peed had received complete coer victims of its ruferentity. The defects m the l e ss"' ,elation of the small-pox were, that it was cognac toting a aregasbeof infection, which spread about the country, aid that, "by conveying the matter of the smell-pm into the human frame, it created the' disease called scrofula, which was a scourge to the human race. Tbe Hon. Gentleman then said, this thhessmisy would throw a light on the subject ; fee, his gait, he had Lodeabt of the result, and he trust. VII that, finally, the House would do honour to lie- 1 MI merit, mid add solid proofs of their sensibility of the magnitude of the discovery. • Mr. WILBERFORCE expressed his snide/Con that so interesting a subject should be brought Cr iers the House, but doubted whether the course of proceeding recommended by theNohle Lord Petty),( was that, of all others, most likely to conduce to the attainment of the °W.:A in view. Already the country was possessed of an attestation of medical 'Turn, signed by almett ercry respeetable name in the profession ; and yetdetraetion had made head and however obvious was. the illiberality and false • . iedieetions of those who opposed the vaccine pro. Fess , with the ignorant, thew assertions - had pre -:vented the progress of the remedy. The process tad t uffei ea also Gem Me inspruderce - of el* 1 %ries& : etese Mem:es in which it had. been as- • • 'Weil to lik, ware titriq ::Y.z... to Ale aisei ti,-n, that the iggeplation and management of thledi . orileteesileplelthirPthetomples ef every (nee Th b had led Pletwos indiscriminately to litempt to yea ciente their own-chiidren, and these of others, eel patients lied been proneuec,d to ha yelled tie disease, r eiehuteis/ly.had it not, and afterwards caught the . small-pox. by these means, the Draftee had been much deteriorated. The course likely to be most effectual, he thought. would be, the - apprietreent cif a Committee of that Hourte and of the House of Lords, to investigate the state of the disorder, and the merits of the remedy. An inquey so conducted, would he mote congenial to the people ef the country, and more likely to produce the effect intended. than a Report of the Col lege of Physicians; and although he fully agreed that any speci.s of compulsion would be improper, he thought inmethitig little short of it might be re torted to, in the case of those who contracted the small-pox; and that they might be made subject to certain regaletions, to guard the Public from the contagien, in the same way that they were protteted feint the plague. No laws were 111111 . e stiletiy enforced, or more strict in themselves, (imposing, as they did, the penalty of death) than those of quarantine : and although the malady it was now attempted to extirpete, was known by another name, it was a sort of plague. What he meant, was, that persons infefleil, should be pre vented from associating with others who were not; and that, for the poor. whose narrow dwellings might not permit a separation, public receptacles should be provided. -ibis tort of compulsion, he thought pettedly consonant with propriety, and the course pursued in other cases, where the public h.w:th was concerned. The Vaccine Inoculation had made less progress in this country, in which it had been discovered, than in any other.' This was a remarkable fad; but it arose from tee independ time of the people, and the principle of nor being led in opinion ; and was, therefore, a bad effvfl . item a nobleViiige 'The best way to medicate tiie pre judice, .was, unait beedly,, te diffuse km lel. ' e e g and he could titst btseitestri theteMie, Nn* !'t , id (Lord H. tetty) . woule,' in the .neldiewleutoefeesen t 1 some means to make ao opinion come kora bathe Houses of Parliament, as the most likely way to SA. tidy the people of the saltuary effe& of what was recommended to them. Mr. WINDUAM said, the only point about Which any difference of opinion seemed us be enter tained, was, the mode to be pursued for aiding the prevalence of the inoculation. For himself, he entirely agreed with Iris Hnn. Friend near him, .(Lord H. Petty) rather than with his Hint. - Friend (Mr. Wilberforce) opposite, He could not at all conceive. that an opinion, espelleted on such a point. by that House. Aopld ha.. inert weight than the judgment of the eon.fp of Physicians., ortebetehe public would be more recoiled the vaccine processs, on the . Gentlemen its Parliament, than left' elided. menet,. As it was at present ptoposill. . the sanction of Parliament, superindiallelidell ibi opi nion .if the profession, Would apply just as kiosk to• do ; and the oalycourse the Housesmaideiedept e in case it chose more atlively.to interfere, Would be tl) groend their option upon the authority of medical men. which, he thought, would not be muck aug mented in weight, by the formality of passing through the House. Parliament bad already elt• pressed its opinion. by the reward, boweryr made. quote s bestowed on Dr. Jenner ; and yet it was found that the vaccine process had nut emended it- 1 . self on that account, bnt really did not.prevail so much as it dad at first. With respect to the. degree of compulsion suggested by the Hon. Gentleman. undoubtedly the legislature of any country Was well warranted in preventing the extension of comegion ; bin any shin that went further than to remedy th • • scandalous appearance of children as the streets; with the Small-Pox infedion upon them e would not, he thought. succeed ; as the memeat epy thing like compulsion was resorted to, a perverse spirit of re., sistence was created, which would defeat the hi tended purpose. The Right Hon.,Secretary con cluded by saying, he should support the motion; under the impression that the opinion of the College. of -Physicians, supported as it would be. would answer the end prposed. Mr. WILBERFORCE and Mr. WINDIiAM explained. • Mr. BANKS said, sahat from the late period of the session, he thought the motion of his Nebli Friend (Lord M. Petty) best ; but he could not but thiok, that. at an earlier time, this, which.svas pot a question of science, but of fact. would haveteen best elucidated by the course proposed by the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. WUbeforce) near him. With a view to make the inquiry as extensive as possible, was desirous that reference should also be made US the College of Surgeons. who had as much to do with the malady as the Physicians, and he hoped the Noble Lord would embrace the suggestion. W the vaccine prallice was so useftd as It was tepto-‘" anted. it must ultimately find its way in despite of all opposition. and the discoverer could not fail of receiving, by his pratlice, ample reward • but. besides that, he thought the reward already be stowed by Parliament amply sufficient. and could not think any further remuneration from the public' purse due to Dr. Jenne'. Mr. W. SMITH coincided in the proprietuf Itrif College of Surgeons being associated with the Play: skiers', in the ir.quiry to be made ; as, notwithstabd ing all the pains taken by the Society for the ester. ruination of the small-pox, persons had not Wm able to discriminate between a spurious and the ten* vaccine matter ; and this association of the two, bo4ies •,obl serve the better to inform the public, and guard against future error. He ruse. pried patty. to express the great xatisfattion he felt. that dais impottint subjeet came forward from such a Itopuetable quarter. Azar !' hear !) ; and thought that that circumstance alone would contribute mach to remove public objefdions and prejudices. Mr. Sli.I.W LEFEYRE expressed his appro bation of the motion ; but condemned the idea of main, any farther reconvene, to Dr. Jenner, whom he thought already fully rewarded. Ml. PAUL stared. that the vaccine inoculatioo had been' extremely beneficial in the East Indies, red that the mortality in Lucknow bad been de creased irr consequence of it, irons 670 and SOO an trallly,to 74, dining the last three years that he re sided there. The prejudice agaiust the Focus 7" 7 " I ;i.n„;;tt? conger in gcott.nitilan in tn g t.ina ; arid heoi therefore ingtestelS the propriety of com bining the •Pwitzicians of Ediaburglstaith - those ok Loitilon, in the work of the inquiry to be. insti toted, in order to remove thaobjetions entertained. i Lord irl. rTy said, be had great satisfaetion in witnessing o-animity of the Hausa on the HI; o'leitin ;naking the motion had been well defined by those Honourahle Gentlemen who regarded ir, as p to combine all the epi of a great *dentine body on the subjet, and givint7 them to the public under the sanAion of Pa rli a lit, He could not a g , ree with thy Hon. Gent. ( Mr. flanks) who had said that it was merely an inquiry into a matter of fact, of many of the topics which it would embrace. were such as could only he comprehended by professional Men. Could a Cientmttee of that,House decide on the proper matter to be adopted, and form a criterion by which ;he public might rejea the spurious Or could they determine on the point, which had been roundly asserted in pamphlets, issue: by those who opposed the inoculation. that ele vaccine process generated other disorders, or roused dormant scorbutic affec tions ? He trusted that Gentlemen would agree with him, that the opinion of a scientific body only, could prove edizacious. Witb rope& to the annex ing other Colleges to that proposed to be consulted, he had made every possible inquiry as to the best' bodies to be employed. and had learned, that if the inquiry was to be condueted without broils, it must be done by one body at a time. The College of Physicians would be induced to correspond _with other learned bodies, ard,thus the judgment of all , else medical talents io the kingdom would be con. centred in a report, which he should afterwards move to have referred to a Committee of that House. He certainly did look to some vltetior proceeding in'. this case; as, should the report confirm the vast be nefit that the discovery is likely to confer on Society, he should look to make some more adequate com pensation to Dr. ironer, than had as yet been granted him ; but upon that, and every question wherein the public money was to be voted, a full de bate would be had. . Taw question .was then put.. and the Athireso :aKt*ed!t., mews arr. and , seederetl to he presented by such nieutbuiti nelbwtbisue. Oa are of His Majesty's Privy Council. Oa the motion of Mr. WILLIAM SMITH, it was ordered, that there belaid before the House an account of the ships and tonnage employed i4.;he. Slave Trade. up to the latest period. • The Committee on the Oude charge was deterred until Friday, as Well as the third reading of, the West-India Trade gill ( which stood for to-morrow) ; Lord HENRY PET CY observing, that although there was business appointed for that day, as weU as to morrow, he would fir on Friday, as. by pos sibility, the other business might be put off, and be should be sorry to lose a vacant day. 'The otheriordere ware disposed of, and the House adjostrned.' • ' s:. ' We have received _ Papers to .4 215th of Maj. The clamour,. reveling the accidental death of Pea ass. the American seaman, killed by a shot front an English frigate, appears to have entire ly subsided ; and Ms s•NDA.I Expedition exclusively occupies the public attention in, America. We Lave eitrieked a very important document upon this sub jell, from a New York Paper. Ir is a Memorial, preeteted to. and test i% Congress, in the mouth of April last, from 8. G. °note, a merchant in that city. and tie owner of the Leander, one of the ves sels employed in Maaanna's Eipedition. Upon the arrival of Captain COCIMANI in England, with an account of the appearance of the armament, in the Caribbean Sea, we stated. that our Government had se share.ia it. This statement is now fully con firmed by the Memorial of Mr. 00MIN, who repre sents himself a priacipal agent in Siting if out at New York. Ms aan oa, he admits, had expeetations of air proved fallacious ; and, "f in utter leap Of any , assistance front the British government. he left England, and arrived at New York in November last. That assistance, however, which was refuied in England, the United States supplied. It is im possible to withhold assent from the body of evidence addoeoi, to-ebeer that the expedition war fitted out at New York, not only with the knowledge, privity, ao,I consent, of Mt. Jarrsasom, and the persons in Office in that city, but with their encouragement and apProbation. There is no public ad from which it can be infated, that they supported the plan in their official capacity; but nothing can be more clear, than, that as individusls, they were zealous patrons 'and abettors of the cause; It is an extra ordinary circumstance, to find Mr. °Gnu' indicted for aiding in the equipment of an expedition thus patronized ; and prosecuted with apparent rancour and severity. It will, however, be remembered, that at the time of the fitting out of the armament, the United States were considered on the eve of a war with Spain, and it might have been then thought good policy to encourage the enterprize. Mr. °ones, in his Memorial, accordingly considers himself the viitini of the change that has since taken place in the political situation of the two countries, and charges the Officers of the Executive Government, with an attempt to sacrifice him in expiation of their own errors, or to deprecate the vengeance of France and Spain. It is not easy to account in any 6 a-ea way f% L m AP,gry manna is which Mr. Tat- lidloorned." TUE:BRITISH PRESS. • LONDON', • ' THURSDAY Juvr 5. We have received New York Papers to the 28th mAncr, the Judge of tiae DistrA Court of New. Trsrk, before Whom the legal proeeedinge, in the case iiive been argued, has condOled himself. This con. cins.l has been so irrezular, that the Gland Jury pre. sented is unusual, oppressive, and tyrannical."._ From the great length of the Mem trial, we here been 'compelled to abridge that part of it, containing recital of the law proceedings, but, tlib abstradt is sufficient to shew, that the Judge well deserved this censtlre. l —Mr. Tuost as Abuts Enver, whose name occurs so often in the history of the Irish rebellidn, was one of Mr. °ODIN'S Counsel—. The report of the Ems frigate having sunt British sloop, still continued at New York on the t7th May. The Essex was said to have arrived id the,Bay on that day, and its truth or falsehood would. of course, be soon ascertained. The last accounts received at Bengal, fr- Mauritius, state, that the Upton Castk had been Fur. chased by the Danes, for 23,000 dollars. Great preparations were making at the island, for a vigorous defence against an attack by the English, which was seriously expeCted. They Lad colleCted provisions, in store, for nine months. General DECAEN had made large contrails for tents, cots, and other military equipments. for great number of troops. which were daily capedcat from France. Port North-West was full of Americans. Danes, and Spaniards. The Ganges. Heaermoton. pm:its/sirs, Bawls. apd If‘koen Hafting*, LAIIIIIIII, arrived i.t Macao Roads, the 28th January last the Sarac •Cootk h 4 also arrived in China. A Message was last night delivered to bads - Houses of Parliament from His Mature. moose Wending an increase of the provision made in 1774 for the younger branches of the Rotas. Fault Ye When the change of circumstances which bas take* place since that year, is taken into consideration, every subjeCt who feels affeetion for the Family oat the Throne, and an interest in the dignity of dais State, must rejoice in this ratommearbei,,— • s The Onniame kft off yesterday at 71. Ws hem repeatedly assigned the progress made in the sego. cistioa as the cause of the improved state of the Funds. Policies have been opened in the city, giving five guineas to receive. 100, if Preliminaries be signed within.a week, and be aCtually followed by a Peke—and 15 guinea . ' to mei.° 100,11134 g Preliminaries be signed within twill molpths. ' We understand that Mr. Accusals Petition against Mr. Coccconou's return for the County at Wexford is abandoned. At a meeting of the Bury Loyal Volt:ruse% commanded by Capt. BCNJA!ICLD, OS Satirele; tlast, it was unanimously resolved to maws on thew ,mpßil days of exercise, without pay, until lite sew rim/elation., now under consideratina of Govern. meat, shall have been made known to them. The Everimeat, Taos sea, from , Greenland, arrived off Whitby. On the 18th ult. in Greenland, I sire saw two *large frigates, under Swedish or Rut. sian Colours. The heperiment. Vigiisst, NePlimo Dinsivall, and Lively, 9f London, were chased by them. After coming away from Greenland. ti. Experimate saw one of the frigates standing Otte the Lively and Ding wall. The Britannia, BROWN, and the Olio'e Breech ? Foan, from Jamaica, for London, wete spoke with off Cape Clear, under convoy of the R.c,raism gun-brig, going into Cork. Orders have been issued the ' its by Commander Chief of the Channel Fleet, that no 'Meer or Sca. man is to leave his ship, except on dut) s whale harbour, fitting for sea. The Earl of Lineeri. from Liverpool, ftf London, is captured and carried into St. Vapory. Th e Hebe, from St. Bartholomew's, foe Savannah, put into Charleston in distress, ands condemned. The Gold Heater, Capt. Vote, arrived of Haat. ings from New York, spoke, on the 19th of June. in long. 23. the anntnica packet, the Mansell, and the Venerable, from Barbadoes, fur Liverpool; and on the IBth and 19th, the ttf at .c e i e r, pii. ra cr, the Sandwich privateers of Guernsey-. His Majesty's frigate Greynound. Captain f 3 EL. phinstone, was at Prince of Wales's Island the latter end of December. His Majesty's ship St. Fio, ens@ arrived at Bengal the beginning of January. His - Majesty's brig Staiower. Lieuteaat Owes, arrived at Boinbay, on the ilth December, trona a cruise on the Malabar coast ; spoke His Majetty'a ship Gremlins, cruising. His Majesty's ship D spier had arrived at Madras, after seeing hir cony-iy in safety, in the lat. off N. His Majesty's ship La raw:nesse, Captain Pros. tor, arrived in the River Ganges on January 11. His Majesty's ship Ptirk:, Captain Wooldridge., was spoke with in the Bay of Bengal, on t h e ISJ December. The Calloden, Admiral Pellew, with the Victor, Cipt. Bell, were at Bombay on tee 18th of Decerrt , her, as was the Albion, Capt. remit/. On the 12th of January, in lat. 20. 24. His Ma , jesty's ship Cwww.l/it was spoke with—all well His Majesty, gun-vessel awry iarrivedat Iletsgs in January, from Cuttack. 'f be Adore. arrived at Bombay, in Sanitary, 4,04 His Maje sty 's ship Concorde off Goa. His Majesty's ship Lasseos:er, Capt. Fotbergillr arrived at Bombay in the middle of January. fin/'" the Straits of Milacea, His Majesty's brig' Albatross was craising in the Bad of Bengal the latter end of December.