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Honer Is St. Helen's pfiee, Ilbsboreitte-strtet, no FRIDAY NEXT. the 4th of Oeswber. at Twelve w'Clock. f..r she purpose of e.,4l.llleriog of a Divitiesol no the Capital Mock of the Company, for the Half Year ending at MieMielsnas next. Ry Order of the Coast. JOHN FARRAN, Sec. N.6...The Chair .111 be takes at Oise w'Cloek preeisely. At,., which. for the first fon.. A PETIT DIVFRTISEMENT. by Mr. XL Alan. Mrs. Goss, Moss Carty, and Miss aces. sak Iliptr firs. oppsarson on ohm Slay.). To which will he added She mniieal Farm of THE PADLOCK Don Diem,. Mr. J. lames; lemorier. Mr. Dwreeet ; Munro. Mr. litasehorti. Leerier', Mies Hailootle; Greek, Min. Davenport. Door. to Isopeomf et Malipme fix-41se P y to beßir at &tan. Dome Is.; lherte4 jederftaairLwarrst la. 61.; Price 4.. —Lower Galillery is.; Serena Price IL—Upper Gat kre L. &rood Prim Pliers fror the Roses to be had of Mr. Drandoo,at the Box- OfAre. Ilert. , ierert, from Ten sell Flollf. A Private BUI may he had for She *aeon, or Nightly, of Mr. Breeden, at the &re Oiler. To-morrow, The Two Geotkeeteo of Verona—and The Two Yates of Froderielt the Great. - Os Saturday, The Jenkins Wife: Mee. Oakley. Ohm Clara. ter (from the Theatre Royal. York. her lest appra►anre at Theatre)—sad N. Sea; so Sapper: R.bi., Mr. T. P. Cooke (his first appearance at Ibis Threite). TH R. 4 TRR•ROTA 1., HA Y-MA RKRT. T HIS EVENING, THURSDAY, October 3, will he performel --- - - - LOVERS' iIVARRELS. Carlos, Mr. Rai; itit .-- etho: 111r717 West; Laps, Mr. Ilsasmum..l. Letters, M nit Be) re ; Jaciat Its, Yrs. Tayleure. Affrr *Web THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. Poachers, Mr. Terry; Leda.. Mr. Williams; Caplai• by a Geniksrui, hie 311 apea►ance in that cha racter. and uo this slate; Filch. Mr. Haransiond. Mrs. reschani, Mrs. Pearce; Pally (3d lime). BIM Paton ; Lacy, Mrs. Joues. To twadatie with the Farce of X. Y. Z. Ca►tain Gaillard. Mr. Baker • Berkly Bray. Mr. Lisle's; GrubbWoo. Mr. Minarets ,• Roaciao Andress, Mr. TayWare; Ralyibticisipreed, Mr. MIN rry. Mori., Mrs. Baker Mrs. Mourn, Mar Rome; Data klustmell, Mrs. Were,. Boma, 3s.—Firsi Gellery, is —SecondGnltery,ll4. The Doors to be opened at Six o'Clerk, and t►e Perform ances to begin at Serra. Phew Mr the limes to be taken of Mr. Maashi►am, at the Theatre, of whom Private Boxes rimy be ►ed, nightly. To-mormo, The Beggar% Opera—and Pigeons sad Crows. On Saturday, The Beggar's Opera—arid Eavballate as itgebrry. • THIATNN-MOYAIL, RINOLISH OP Ditill-RUDO STRA AND. • THIS EVENING, THURSDAY, October 3, *HI he asks, OA Opera a INKLE AY* TARICO; • Idle, Si'. Rowleothael; Sir Christopher Curry, Mr. Bart ley; C.pt. Cautploy, Mr. Rio telherst ; Tooter Mr. Wilkie. see. Tarte°, Mies Kelly; Narcissi', Miss Car ew; 7 Wowski, Miss Poway. After which (WA time), se eetirely Nes Operetta, called LOVE AMONG THE ROSES; or, TilF. MASTER.KEY. Alderman Mangold, Mr. W. &arm ; Capt. Gorgon, Mr. Bartley; Sbarpsel, Mr. Wrench; Etlosisad, Mr. J. Bland; Timothy Hollyhock, Mr. Mainsail. Roo', Min Palmy. To which will be added Mob time), a new Musical Farce, in lo;ti arts, etird GRETNA GREEN. Lord Lorenell„ Mr. Pearisse ; Mr. Tookine. Mr. W. Rea. aeu ; Mr. Jeiskine, Mr. Werra ; Larder, Mr, P a tter. Emily .Hire Career ; Belly Fiawikia, Miss Kelly. DIMS open at Half-vast Bia—Porforosaiseit begins at *rex—Second Prier at Ni... Boxes ss. Seennil Price 3..—Pit 30.; Serena Price 16.64. —Loner Gallery, 4r.; &rood Price Is.—Upper Gallery Ir.; trerenii Price 61. To.iourrOW, (ear stank-live Novelties. This day is published, in two solvates lieu. price It. 10s. in hoards, DHOTI I LEXICON e cache. Geleenn eleeetip -11. sit RICARDUs PORSONUS. Seamptibus Trisitaits conialnigsr. Ventiont Londini, spill J. Mammon, 39, Ludgate street. • s • For an afroual of this vileable Lezieon see &kn. burgh XLI I p. 329. or ihr P.l)ll.lwr say also be had, PORSONI A OVERSAW A —F.dit. C. J. Blomield et 1 H. Motik, 1 eel. Bw,, price ISt. is board*. 120 CAPITALS!-ALL MONEY! J& J. Sly EW RIGI-IF..l;;Cthr attention • of their Friend.; and the Public In the improved sdieme of t..e prea , iit Lottery, Tickets aDJ SUM of which art now on Sale at 'ht.'s. fortunate Office', 37, Cnitintta., I 313, HA MM • H, llot.aonv. Owlet of Covenlry-streel. The Sehems is (wawa by themselves and ilteir Brother Con sr*etor. in cittrtlience to site Public Wish, on the plan or the popultr Old Lowrie*. Every Twits, will he derided ,lo l ly, Awl ell Ike Prizes are the Tickets will be in oar Wheel—and all the Ptizes in the other—the whole to be .isan n as chance may .Jarect. There are 120 Capita in ri,ii!nott 3 of 1'20,000 I 3 of.. • ... I' 2. 000 111,000 la l,OOO •:. ........ ...... 5 ,000 20 :WO ' Ili F 4) ""'":/. • am? 21)11 1. T:oe Drawing null commence on th' 3 o h a Till': ‘I 4) STII. Schemes may he hni grill* .0 SIVMItIIIII I'S' i I,ye. a, aid. the partienkr. of the veal P ,, z, sal.' by them in the idial and late Loisernt. 10 1 H ►i BLit. No. 1, Come tilu.. I T etnnct Le ru•peeteti that the encomiums we ~.c i.i. , .•.s 1:, o w., an she present Lotter, are dictated 1, 1 41". '1 11 " l'i 01.110 , r, w!.eri we are aratiooa to have it coo sder.`l at °lift 11 . .*• 7. PI.A#I, or the kiwi of Scheme we hir e s,„ . tt rt mmemdcd ; 101 avowal obWorwly audiocreet, if 1 or 'te,e,, u i cold - ideal it •ppeuxismates as 'sear aa possible . i ", 'Pett , r..•rs, .tad cn.nbistes io a sumsmal degree all 'Moor 1 P , ords tr. uli must °ratite it approval. The Prime's •re all N kftiost. Ni Stock. Nu Cloatem. Ever) Nombre dream mntly, tills plenty of C suit do (treh'e the moral 'smasher), k ""'''f'' *huh are t 'tell, but floating la the Wheel, ao Shut ALL in ,,i d b e drawn Ow FIRST DAY; awl we are per "'4.l. 11 , nil she rusk of title induced Contractors to llat ll.em tur p.rtictalor DIE. the prelim - at Plan will prove more 60 .cticuii Ns awns. 04 Porellasera Ikea held beck ; whertaa '''''`e'S 00e will purchase as She beal•Wor, Haw Charwe heil bestir, ow she rrice tows/. lu aWn. We can "I ,7.__ ri. 1 " 4 440.1y .ire r , 11,0.1 r 101. bens aw 1,41ee11. sluice air "u'''' ag* *lnli,!letl, so mulch esisiled 10 romoterrauce; awl we rtpert Ai, e.am.ll of good old.taallioweel Priscilla's wig • Du..ar Lutur•i..% ro their peirsise eelebrity. 'nu: Public's übedteltl basiaMe iimwwwW Lti(ky Cioof r, I, Corehill. PUDDING St CO. a ROTA!. EXCHANGE ASSURANCE OFFICE, &tabhelped by Royal Charier is ihe Reign of Kiug George the Flni. September, left. PERSONS. whose Annual Preintivms fall due ow the 29th Natant, are hereby infernsest, that Receipts sire row ready to be delivered at She Compsny's Offices, over the Royal Eachauge sod in PaMerril, as well as by them respective Agents in the several Comities; Curl lime Parties *wired are regressed in apply for the Renewal of tbeir Pou ehe. on or before the 14th of October next ' as die moral Fifteen Day. allowed fur Paywoest v beyuod the Date of elicit Policy, will thaw expire. SA 1111 U El. FENNING, .an. Secretary. • s • Attendance is gives, daily, at the said Offices, for the liasiteresee of Buildings, Goods Illerchaurtises, and Ships, in Harbour, in Dock, or while building, from Luse or Damage ►y Fire; and also fur the Assurance ofr sad grislier/ Alumslies ou, Lives. N.B.—Fire Policies will be issued free of Expeese to the Assured, where the Annual Premium anationts to es. or • pwanls. • THE PHYSICIAN. [Fro. the " Nets Monlisly Jlarasitte . for October.] ON SLEEP. The different powers which set the machine of the human body in motion may be dividedllbto two prin cipal classes; since some of them may be compared with those which animate vegetables, while others are pecoliar to animals alone. The faculties of diges. tiost and of the elaboration of the alimentary juices ; those which circulate these juices in the blood-ves sels; those which secrete from them other fluids for our nourishment and preservation ; and those which expel the soiree nuouts matters. belong alike to v e s getable, and animate. In every healthy individual them remelt; iterf.sesw their fenctioas mtheet issier* ruption from the beginning to the end of Fife: the suspension of any of them is a disease; the Mina. lion of all. death. . The locomotive powers, which give us as animal, an advantsge over vegetables; such as receive their impulse from the feelings and conceptions of the soul; those of voluntary action; and till the facial. ties of the external senses, are of a totally different kind. After they have continued their operations • short time they begin to tire, and in • few hours become so exhausted, that their' must obvious effects cease, though the movements of the first kind coreinue. The suite in which we then are is called sleep. It is, therefrre, an exclusive pro. perty of animal bodies; the sleep attributed to ;dents being an improper expression, founded on a very slight analogue. Since all the oneclunical 'powers of animals are determined as well by the structure of the body, as by a certain sensibility which animates the whole machine, we nosy easily conceive that in sleep those faculties also which we possess its COMI101) wills ses getable* undergo o change, rt.. 4 that these too, according as they operate its various ways, and exert or waste the animal powers more or less, must pro- mote, disturb, or prevent sleep. Sleep, therefrom, is in reality the repose of sui mated odium, the time ito which it recruits its ex hausted 'mowers. The hornets body los. often heels compared with a watch: I should sAy, that the mechimical 'moire, sir the vegetable life of animate, is like a perpetual motion, which, when once set cointimes to art till the machine itself is so worn out as to he oususeeptible of repair. The animal nature, on the other loud, resembles • watch, which must be wound up at least once in twenty-foisr hours; and this winding up is sleep. It is to law of Nunes- the 'milord!' must sleep ; and if I may so express myself, the more they are animals—the more animal their nature—the more evident symptom• of actual sleep we tina in them. The insects, which have scarcely any brain, seem rather to rest only, or to be rendered torpid by cold, than really to sleep. In die latitude of llorlsoll's Bev, Ellis found on board his ship masses of erm - igreg4ted flies, and on the banks of the rivers frogs Irrizen as hard as ice : on removing them to at warmer place, thee recovered feeling and life: lint if they were afterwards frozen, they could not he again recovered. It is obvioirs that this slate was inure nice torpor than regular sleep. Maio, on the other !laud, cannot keep awake 24 successive homers without difficu:ty, and without ouvoluntsrily failing asleep. Most quadrupeds re semble hint in this particular; but among the va rious species of them we observe great differences in ergard to the necessity of sleep. in like manner there are various kinds of clocks, some of which re <palm winding up every twelve hums, others every week, others organs every months, and others at still Luger intervals. Thus the swallows, on the ap probs.!) of winter, retire to caverns sod morgues, where they sleep for five months together, till the return of warm weather. Such, too, is the case with the frogs; and serpents also have been found in Utak( its aabterruneous holes. The tortoise, during that season. burrows the sleeper into the sand the colder it is ; and lives in this torpid state, excluded from tlor air, till called forth by the warmth of spring. Even the fisher, in severe frost, bury them selves in the mud, and there pass their state of tore pidity. The bear, the hedger. amid the warrant, lie the tilutle winter hi Iso!eel fool it is 'Astra of the lost, that it will not Cake etert wounded with khives. This animal repair., at the heg• gof wint e r, to a hole whirls is the hereditary abode of a whole Nosily of fhweimots from • generation to gene. ration. It first eolleetr r rioarrity of hay, with whirl, each individmil . a the fimily prnpares • bed for itself. When the are on it..embled, they close up the entrance to it retreat. lay them...lvry down, m u d steep wr perifotionlly., flint, as we are a.. slued. they mar be taken up and curried theory with mot waking. It Isssaid that, for a fortnight pre viously to its long gents this animal tilts nothiwg, but drinks only. in ore; to cleanse the Ptomitch, otherwise the fwl. ly remaioing in it so long, might become putrid; and it lie, with its snout violets, No •hellychostju simpinnent it ptiositil lose too mach moisture. Wrriftelrillndilliiss its tie. coheir wants; and to such as would scoreely be able to find oubsiatenee in winter, Nature has given Iso dies that require a aix-months sleep, during which they need neither food . nor drink. The bears have the precaution to gorge themselves against winter to such a degree, as if they meant to eat en ou g h to last th , m ell their lives. They go into winter quarters with their hides distended by a load of so. perfluons fat, and waste away during the period of their sleep in such a warmer that in spring they collie forth again mere skeleton,. It is a fortunate circumstance for those person• who love to improve their minds and are fond of useful employment, that we are not subject to such protracted sleep, but can make shift with a few hours' repose. I have heard, indeed, of the Seven Sleepers, and of Epimenides the Cretan, who, when is boy, went into a cave. where he fell asleep, and hi said not to have awoke for forty-seven or fifty-seven years: a story which the 4lpustle Paul 'whirs lied in his view when he called the Cretans "liars," and some other hard names. My readers need not he informed what credit is due to these Wei. At the same time we are not authorised to consider them as absolutely impossible, since many able men who have maturely weighed the matter do not think it in itself totally unreasonable. Boerhaave udmits that he discredit* the story of the Seven Sleepers; but Ire adde, " I nevertheless believe that people 'may live a long time without 'neat or drink, for, when they are once completely subdued by sleep, the pores close, and they may then live a loug while before they are awakened by the slow and gradual waste to which they are subject." Haller reworks, that the Turks have • similar fable concerning giants who have slept for • great length of time, sod praises on idea of Reaumor's concerning this suspension of food and life. This great naturalist bra• demonstrated that the eggs of anion& and in recto, as well as the nymphs of caterpillars. may be kept merely by means of cold and the stisence of exciting cutlers for years together before they are developed, and that the vital principle is neverthe . leis not extinguished, since the animals produced by the application of warmth from these eggs and nymps are as brisk, and live as long as they would have done without this delay. Ou this foundation the great Msupertsis constructed a system for pro. longolg human tile; and who knows but the plan may be some time or other cars ied into execution? I have no doubt of it for my part, if we can de. Pend on the accuracy of the observation common'. sated by M. Bouguer, concerning a species of sem ' pent in Peru, which, after being suspended to the branch of a tree or in a chimney, till quite dry, may be, revived ten or twelve years afterwards, if left for some days in muddy water exposed to the whet rays. We are so little enlightened in respect ' to such matters, that it may he deemed nearly as ' bold to laugh at this story as to give it implicit belief. , - - - Be this, 'howeler, as it will, so much is certain. that we ordinary folks, who are neither Seven Sleepers nor Cretans, have no occasion to imitate the marmots, but that a sleep of a few hours is suf ficient In recruit our Inst strength, and to fit us for a new life of sixteen or eighteen hours. Corporeal fatigue, mental exertion, profound meditation, nay time itself, weaken our animal powers, and consume the vital spirits which are indispensably nec e ss ar y for all occuputioos both of body and mind. I could relate to my readers how these effects are accounted for in the medical schools; but when I consider that after I had done. they would be just as wise as at first, I will spare them the explanation, end give in its stead a few useful rules how to turn sleep to the benefit •f their health. So much they know, that we cannot live without sleep; that we sleep because we are weary ; that we possess new strength when we wake. and hence it is to be inferred that the object of sleep consists merely in the secs • g of our strength. Well, we physicians also know just an much, and no more: for all that we coujec t ore beyond this is of Ito farther u se than t o relieve us from the disgrace of acknowledging our ignorance. It is not a matter of indiffereuce to health where we sleep. In many houses the bed-rooms are those which are found unfit far any other purposes. The poor frequently sleep to holes, where they have not so much room and air as a dog that is chanted in his kennel. Many people in good circumstances have bed-chamber■ which ■re so small, dark, and dirty; that they would be ashamed to shew them. This is an important error in the conduct of life. As we commmonly spend a third part of the twen ty-four hours in our bed-rooms, it behoves us to take all possible care that we may enjoy pure air for so long tin interval, especially as we cannot well renew it in the night•time. To this end we ought never to sleep in the apartments in which we lire during the day. hut choose for a bed-chaiulter a spacious room expo►ed to the sun, that can be open ed in the day for the admission of pute air and the dispersion of the vapours collected in the night. The beds should often be shaken up, anti these ■s well as the bed-clothes exposed in the day to the an.. and air. It is necessary to observe these rules if we would secure ourselves from the effects of a vitiated atmosphere. Night is the best time for sleep. It is more quirt than the day ; and it is then hitter for as to be in bed than up, because the warmth or the bed pm. teviii of from she cold and damps of Died. • It is oleo advisable is retire to rest before saideight. it is proverbially said, and with truth, that the emtnd eirt end turret erholieriorne sleep is that whirl, we ob tein before. twelve o'clock. If we remain rip too tang, we waste too much of our strength I hen& re sult (whilst movements in the Wood. Ulrich ore a . kiwi of consistent! fewer. The hurt depreeof fryer io the blood is well known to occamen restless 'deep; and theiehire it is snorer advisable to defer it till after midnight. It should rather be observed. that the occupations which we follow lute at night bra seldom emulative to health. Weak ihntru either to.tead or write. and for so unhealthy' a pos. tore as sitting, the day is quite Wog enouglo srall‘ devoting to it past a the es okillii. . r . SO stn. a nd thus waste still wore the ea . 'powers whit sleep might to recruit and renew ; or to frau (MT ing. by which we pamper a part at the expense of the whole, forgettisig that sleep is the best feat of the anima: nature. For she stone reason I cannot approve of dancing at nigh:, though it has this ad vantage over other nocturnal. amtioements, that it keeps up the transpiration which the cold of night is otherwise liable to check. As we ought daily to comply with the instinct which impels us to rut and drink for our nourishment, so we ought also to feed and to refre.h the animal nature with sleep, end not suffer it to fast beyond the proper time. Great heat, severe exertion either of body or mind. and hearty meals, sometimes dispose us to sleep in the day. It has been a subject of frequent discussion whether sleep after dinner be wholesome or not. Thete can be no doubt that it is when ova feel heavy surd disposed to sled p. Boerhaave was once of opinion that sleep after dinner is pernicious, and that the school of Salerno was in the right to pro scribe it. and on the contrary to recommend bodily exercise after meals ; hut when he considered that all the animals, after appeasing the cravings of sp. petite, give themselves no to repose, and that the due digestion of food requires not only s large pro.. portiou of vital spirits. but also the easy and unre strained moventeut of the abdomen. to neither of which bodily exercise conduces, he changed his opi nion, and with Ilippocrateis, Galen, end other emi nent physicians, recommended bodily exercise be fore dinner, and a nap after it, with Felix Plater. The latter celebrated physician once attended a meeting of hi* colleagues, at which this question was debated. Every one condemned the practice, when Plater rose: " I am now seventy years of age," said he ; " I have always taken my nap after din per, and have never been ill in my life." Who could advance any thing ugaiust such sin urge meat ? It is an Important question. how long a person ought to sleep. Too long sleep overload., too short stints the animal nature. The best sleep should continue no longer than till we are satiated with it. This satiety depends on • hundred different cir cumstances. A lively disposition does not require so much sleep as a phlegmatic temperament. We often hear people complain that they cannot sleep at night, who nevertheless ■►e hearty and lively during the day, and who merely err iu going to bed too early and lying too long. They retire to rest, perhaps. at ten o'clock, and awake at three or four. Conceiving that to sleep well they ought to sleep the whole night through, they call that ►estlessness which is but the effect of vivacity. They do not require longer sleep. Their force is recruited 111 a few hours; after which they ought to rise, 'antici pate the sun, and pursue their occupstions. The same is the case with the indolent, whose head and hands are alike unemployed. For them it were better that the day were twice as long, or that they made no difference between day ■ud night. Th e y should only lie down when they are sleepy, and rise as soon as they awake, and fall to some kind of work or other. f know a person who has by this method relieved himself from sleepless nights. He rose as soon us lie awoke, be the hour what it would; cut. ployed himself fur an hour, or till he grew sleepy, then lay down again, and slept till morning. In a short time he could sleep the whole night through, especially after taking bodily exercise in the day. Simetorius observed, that a person who sleeps from eight to ten hours ',inspires but little in the first five. In the three following the traaspirat►on in. creases, and he becomes lighte► its weight as well as in feeling. In a longer cominuance of steep the transpiration again diminishes. The blood grill-N -ally circulates more slowly. He feels chilly, and the limbs become heavy. Instead of acquiring new strength, he is oppressed with • lassitude which makes him more amid more sleepy, and ag t which Saticturius recommend■ bodily exercise and strung excitement of the passions. Unless recourse he had to these aids, such a person is in danger of the fate which betel • doctor of physic. of whore Illocrhaave messes mention. Having conceived a notion that it was conducive to health to sleep a erred deal, he went to bed in a dark •ud quiet place. and slept several days. When he was awakened lie was much more ignorant than lie had been before. He again resigned himself to sleep; and on again awaking, lie was a perfect idiot. Hence it is necessary to beware of sleeping too long. Nature herself in ge. 'oral prevents us from filling into the contrary ex. treme. These impulses must not be obstinately re sisted, or we incur the risk of insanity. lu this 'winner the fowler stuptfies the falcon that lie is about to train. He prevents it from sleeping for • certain time, and this breaks the spirit of the bird to such a degree. that its instructor can make it du whatever lie please.. The position of the body in sleep is likewise a point of some consequence. The head ought not to be too low, and there should be nothing to ob struct the free movement of the chest amid &lido. men. For this reason all night clothes ought to be loose. The body ought to be equally covered, and none of the limbs should be in such • posture as to keep the muscles its action. If you fall stltrp with your hands clasped. you find on awaking that your lingers ate dead and have no feeling. If you I e with crossed ley, they either contract that sec statism which is caned befog asleep, or you get the cramp in them. It is linen's! to ',ler!) much witting on a chilli; for if the legs hang down they are apt to bor 'woollen in the morning, and if they •re Tsui upon another choir, 1114 position comp. e ss ea ti le alidotheo. Sores maintain that it it beet to be 0,, the right aide, shut the hesrt miry mote • !rlt grrmtcr treenolo. The most rational course ti, thy+ p,nt!.. Color is for each individind to be I,t h• 4 own feeling". and to thanue his ;restore accord,' u c. Neither the light of doy, i.or even noonn should he permitted to full upon the eyes olimcg sleep: otherwise they are liable to II thy horning heat in the day-time, and frequently to Inflamma tion. Every one would be glad to know by what metope sleep slay be promoted; for umbeng is aserre ttc pleasant than to be weary and vet beer to wait for sleep. The wit method islatigue, either by bodily or mental labour. and this is not the lot of the greet, but of the humble and the slate. Who but reCollects the soliloquy to this .ffeet, which Shake. . pesre has pot into the lips of Henry IV. ? Tibet of his valiant sitecromr, though lets poetical per haps, for which reason it has not beta so often quoted, is equally to the point : " I know 'ila not the •erptre and Ilse fill!, The sword, the mare, the crown imp►rial, The interti••ued robe of gold and pearl, The bowed title running 'fore the N hoc The throne he sits 190, wor the tide of pomp Thai beat* upon the high shore of the world ; No. not all these, thriciceoreeotia ceremony, N u t all these, laid u. lied msjestical, Caa sleep so soundly as the wretched slate, Who with • body oirr and Immo, wind Gets him to rest, crawint'd with dimmest'sl breed, who, from the rime to set, Sweats in the eye of Phoebus, and all night Sleeps in Elysium. lIIVIRT V. Act iv. &ewe 1. There are other means of promoting sleep, most of which, however, onght only to be known un der to be avoided. Corpulent person. are, •Imest without exceptii.o, disposed to profound sleep. which may tnorr justly be regarded as the forerno ner of apoplexy th.iii the invigorator of animal life. Dionymns, the corpulent tyrant of Heracles, slept so soundly, that to awake hen it was necresary to thrust pins through the rat into his flesh. Apo plexy at length carries off such drowsy persons. and as their sleep was an image of death, so death it, them exactly resembles sleep. Too lung wistehieg also tends in promote an unnatural drossmess. Soldiers, after passiog several nights without sleep during sieges. have been known to be so overpower ed as to fall asleep on the batteries amid the thunder of bombs and cannon. Persons who hare twei, cruelly prevented from sleeping for several wet ks, have, after the seventh week, become so insensible. as not to be roused from their stupor when beater ever so severely. The well-known soporific medi cines, it is true. occwiton sleep ; hut it is an rest less and nniratural, that it ought rather to be term ed a disease than wholesome rest. This effect i s produced not only by opium MA preparations front it, but by various plants; fur instance, the alder rot spectra of henbane. nightshade, Sre. the owe or which should of course be avoided. lo Italy there is • kind of lettuce, which, if eaten, occa.inns ra mortal sleep. In India there is a herb. called thert• drams, hut in the Maldive Islands motto!, bearing a rimed green-spotted pod, full of small seeds. Wild sagr, hermixtem, makes people drowsy who remain long on a spot where it grows in abninlinice: and it is well known Out a stupor wines I lime who sleep where brans are in blossom. or In a inn , " where lilies are placed. Upon the whole, it is pc - Mcions to sleep in on atmosphere impregnated *tit; strung odours. They confuse the head, injure it r olfactory n sod c.. use headset, and dtrriliecs. On this occasion it miry not be amiss to warn tl e reader against the introduction of the vapour of coal or churcosl into bed-chambers. it prorlitrts restless suit iiiirefreshing sleep, Fiessiiiess, ioniser, nay. even death itself, according to the degree its strength. For rrasoll 1 cannot imprist. th• practice of warming beds with burning cools; fi which purpose bottles of hot water ore to be pr.- (erred. Care should also he taken to keep bed rooms well ventilated and free from damp or ',ti midity. Hence they should face the inn, and not be on the grounil.floor of the house. Cold in ll,e head, and loss of hearing, vie Ireqnent complaint. with persons who sleep in damp, close rooms. Among the surest sial most innocent !sterns c!' promoting sleep, I can recommend wine end to bacco ; but both must he used with moderation. A slight degree of exhilaration is soon sticireederl by drowsiness. These means and employment ute ficient to produce wholesome sleep; but iii the same time we must avoid whatever is liable to dis turb it, and among other ihin4s trio profuse sop pers, by which the stomach is overloaded. I should nevertheless not dissuade healthy persen” , , who are accustomed to the practice, horn esiiiig intolerai.• suppets ; for fasting also is rollout to prevent It is a bad habit to drink tea, cult e, cr a grrai quantity of soy thin beverage Lielote ri !wog it. rest : these rilly driest the ohject of t ho-e who are obliged in Invite slumber. They will much more likrly to attain their cud by a K la s s or two or wine, sisiokilig a pipe, sod reati log a few pages (4 some dull poet. On Salop(lay, the day after the races at some neighbouring framer% •iiil autogiro,* 1, 1 d I. speed of their buries over the course. Ti,., usual proceeding at the conclusion of ninin rice., hurt is untrielitioilahly an irregular and even illeg.l practice. In the present cure it has bergs miteskit.l with con.equinces whieli probably will prove hat, to one of the mkt*. a young boy, who. we 'lvo to say s was mot away with by a puwerfal animal be longing to Mr. Gitt.T, of Swinton : Ibe laws and railings were cleared in safety ; but in reasig at the desperate bona the %Vining gale (a very laity one). it fell broadside over, and injured the omit so much that but little hypes are entritsiiied of his recovery. ~•~ EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY. NOM- E ie hereby given, Thet, potratiitat to the Deed of Kettlenient, me ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING a the Propriebreawf Tea or awe Shares will h. hetd as the London T Kishepaticas...beet, nu FRI DAY, the 4th Day of Oetwbe;oeto, at Twelve C'Cloek et Neer. fee she Demme rif Per.i•jog e e Aememese Err the Cempary, met of eleetkke Mx Dirretees sad ODA Amditeir. WILLIAM REBTMA3I, Secretary. September d, ISM.