The Sun. — London, England, 1830-07-17 00:00:00

ski& .0# TilEretitlC'3olAoA4oo: 4 ' 4,44 -- , There is one phenomenon in theigotuntion of the Irish poor, which mu* soasadituld think, attract the notice, and titooltsequence deeply affect the feel ingot, of ill humane persons in this country. The fact alluded to is the frequeot recurrence of epidemic fevor among that unfortunate mid much afilicteid people. We doubt whether a satisfactory cane has yet liven fotind to which one can with confidenie ettribute the visitations of the plague in Eastern climes, after long intervals of suspension. A parti cular wind, a certain temperature, infection from contact With diseased districts or individuals, haVe each in turn, or simultaneously, had the boooar a , - signed to them of generating that' trap tendous ma lady. There is in Ireland a disease more dreadful than the plague, not produced by wind, or heat, or cold, or contact,---independent of all these natural and irresistible antecedente,—but arising directly from a human want, which want has itself been in great part caused by human injuries. The disease is fever—the source of it is hunger. It is worse than plague, because it does not kill so soon; and , because that other, the parent evil, is a scourge not incidental to the contingency of plague. Only hit the English reader judge the situation of a peopli, amongst whom it is on record that famine ragiis during every fourth or fifth year of the last century, —sometimes for two or three years in succession, —and that the freezing agonies of hunger ripen it. variably into the burning paroxysms of fever, tlie hunger end the fever being alike unmitigated by charity first, and afterwards by science. The Essay of Dr. Corrigan, on the Epulentia Fever of frt i . land, traces with elaborate. industry the progress and effects of those , fevers which ravaged the un happy island during the last century—that is to say, from 1728 to 1826. ' And the frtiit of his researches is thus abridged : " I have thus thrown together, with a concise notice df the most remarkable preceding or accompanying eirCutrie stances, the principal epidemics of the last hundred years. j' It is a maxim in philosnphlling, that ive must, as 1 as possible, assign like causes to like effects! and if ups a general view of all the instances Adduced, we find sour one condition invariably present 'to that condition, we gt* the time of cause. 'We give the name of calm to t object which we belliee to' be the invariable antecedent f 1. a particular change."' Epidermic fevers are the like effects.; we must, if possible, assign them like causes. Upon )t general vie* of thew, with the accompanying circum etimees, we find one condition invariably present, famine': that - we therefore mark down as their common cause. 1 " liven a rapid glance - over the Wile, as I 'save arrange I it, will show, that however all other circumstances, time, season, climate, might-have varied, this one emit tion, holism, was never absent. No matter how clima alterod, or seasons revolvet4 how summer or winter rills. I on, so Aire as want appeared, so certainly did pestilent:is, follow, The two have also ever kept • pace- with one entailer: as the degree of want, so has been the extent df aver." The learned author continues Ids useful observd tions us follows : " it is scarcely necessary to call to the recollection tlie ' summer of 1816, cold and wet—corn uncut in Novembei, or rotting in the sheaves on the ground ; potatoes net J ipeued (and when unripe there cannot be wore,' food , esateining mote water then nutriment; !draw at such t extravagant price as to render the obtainieg of it fe betiding almost impossible, and . when procured, retaining from its halt.fermented sate, so much moisture, that tit use was, pet lisps, worse than thte , went of it. The Man . agent that destroyed the harvest spoiled the turf. &Limp slid such a multiplication of evil* come together. In some of the former year", although. fermi and bedding were deft tient, the Portion saved was ef good quality, Mud fu ` I Was not wanting ; but in 1810 every coinfort,thet migi t hsva Atoned for partial went waseiteente Mid deacriPtiot applies ,to the two years of 1816 and 1817. At Midsurit. ince of 1917 the Musa of fever was over the entire .coint try*, It inetburek.forth alueeit io, a thoueand : sliffereelt psisiafs, ": Within the Arent Niece of a, month; in the summ r o slBl7, the e piiieutiesprung forth in Tramore. tough+ , , Kinealle,Tralee, and Chanmel, in Carriekeenehluiri Ito- etre ! 11.11.1 m, Castleleert 11e1f ,, 4 1 , ArmsBl4 0014/Ibs bul dositlerry, Menaeterevetti. Tulle:Mire, and Slane. Tlos simultaneous -breaking- out, shows that there must Intie b ten sow universal cauee.,;„ , • "Although the' bursting forth of f e ver ahout the sane time in all the, places motioned ithave, made this the most remarkable epoch hem which to designate it a general ek &tisk m , it hod comenced. through the greater pert of CO naught iu the autwarsof 11116 e enticipating its eppitaran e in the other parts of the country by at leeet six - month . i This fret, on ealliug to mind the rcaliar circumstances f the province of Connaught, affords further confirmetian 1 1 the opinien advanced that famine and fever are related I c e ase f ire! e ff ect. In Conought the bulk of the poi e are more dependent on the immediate crop ofthe year, arjd eves:4ll6y on the potato crop, than In most- other psi es of hetet%l. jlence want immediately ensues on the occur. mute of an unproductive harvest. No sooner, 'thereto . in the auttsuon of 1816, was famine felt float the sleticie t i , cr op, than pestilence followed, raging !with great violets ,e th revel, the country patts of the province. bet while t so eeentry parte, at this early period ,of the epidemic, we e sollesing severely, the thriving towns of the province, r eleitipk Westport sod Castlebar, were free; and it wean A moil six smooths after, towards Midsummer of 18170 vb n aitttress and want bet-lime. general, that those : towns in common with others began to.suffer to any considers! e extent. If the epidemic lout depended, for its rise and pr - grim On climate, mason, attnosphetin influence, or co • legion, these town* should have suffered in common wig!) the pats immediately around them. They posstesed, air some time at least one immunity,which their more inland and less thriving neighbourhoods wanted r an im mon ity fi opi famine, and in the same degree therenjoyed it from lever.lt Yd landlords of Ireland, listen to those aecusi4 flirts; . anti if the Lord Limericks of a Indfoltervtid na tion object to legislative interfereneo for its ramp, because to relieve the poor Irishman by' laww 'ould be t 4 rob the rich one, we trust in 'a Kash legit- Wore, ,to reply; that, to rob-=--thottgli it were la robbery, winch restitntion is not:,-butt„ to rob tile rich by tomato's is 4 less .crime than to murder tile poor by thousands ; anti . that, the: aggravation 6i C on ine, hi:defective lows, is eguivrilent to an act of murder..- Mu% . . . , A foolish Evenivg Paper, Whose Intherdashei loyalty, seems to have been confouuded by atm frank- IMPS :about the late Xiirg,: has .the ittipertineueit tilt Insitittute - that we havolbeen governed .by catwortho. motives in our avowed contempt for adulation. W the wiseacre be go obliging as to mention what sott of unworthy motives he - thinks (can he think ?) cap actuate tra iu treating the objects of Coureidolat4 With an hula deference ? „Ikto is a blockhead; Ins sod others provoke r ue 'to, say mare, Ve have to great de.ti morn to tell, compared with which what we have saroody said is not.rnerely forlaartotee bot itanegyric.—``ewes. On the motion fertile third reading of tho A. propriation Bill, the Marquis of Lanstloalte took occasion W ulhtdtt briefly to some important points in Our foreign and domestic relations. Tb e l in i t point to which ha Outlet' was the unsettled state of the East of Europe. He next alluded lerthe uusa. t ig ictor y , staLe of :our relations with Portugal. Ad verting to . the capture of :Algiers, his Lordship re joked at the victory, but be trusted that the can ttent arrangements would not be confined to the b ene fi t o f Franco alone, but• would be extended the whole of, the :Mediterranean, and, the, Lott europe. .114 Lordship, in adverting to the vote of 1,1116.000 i., eeniured the want of. attention on the part of Government to the suggestions of n one mittes of the House. of COMMOIIB with reaped to the Irish blikeellatteona• Services. The Duke of Waliieston agreed with what fell from . the Noble Marquig reApeeting Ireland, hut observed, that there were eireerminineet in the state of Ireland which rendered it necessary to protteed with caution at every step. Ile said their Lordships w • ere just as Well aerittairatell with the I +inaction% in the East Of Europe to; 'he . ertuiti pretend to lie. A I to slertugu, there was every reason to believe that an arraege. mint rattlifitetory to aft part4 o wou ld 1 .b e geeomplhohad. As to the ree u r d u i„,- ,0 1 ,,i et to 064 the Noble Mel pia i tysl hjitideir, them ,wasslack eVtly 44'010 10 believe that the arrogcmon among the several Power*. interested would be satisfactory ; although until the negueil, lions were COilitititiati, liotiling of a tleeitled mama could be stated." lord Lansdowne 's horguage * Brown en -Cow coot Affect' I See thy article at kilth iu the Zuncot. . it petting Algierte`nimely, thif the irrangemetits'cOn sequent upon the capture would .not be confined to the benefit of France alone, but extended to the whale of the Mediterranean and the East of Europe, would seem to imply that his Lordship believes the French do not mean to colonize the country. Whe ther colonization by France would be beneficial to that country we know not ; but it would most as suredly be beneficial to Europe. Does his Lordship metre, by extending the benefit to the whole of the Mediterranean, that the French shall stipulate with the power left in possession of Algiers, that the Al gerines shall respect the inhabitants of every country of the Mediterranean us much us the inhabitants of France ? Or that all the countries in the Mediter ranean shall be allowed to share with France the benefit of colonization ? We are not sure that the world will gain much by the interference of this country with the proceedings of France in Algiers, and et all events, whatever may be the case with re gard to France, there are not many Powers in the Mediterranean that would consider the liberty to colonize the coast of Africa in the light of u benefit. Before interfering with France in this matter, we ought to knew whether our interference will riot be mischievous. The French, perhaps, feel no incli nation to colonize Algiers, and in that case, how ever much their departure from it may be regretted, other Powers could hardly object to their refusal to incur a further expense fur en object beneficial to Europe generally. But we cordially agree with a contemporary (the Scotsman), that they ought to be encouraged to colonize rather than thwarted in any such design. " No second-rate Power," observes our contemporary, " could combat the barbarism of the native tribes. Spain and Naples, for instance, are but half civilized themselves, and could send over nothing but lazy pride, stupidity, and superstition. The Dutch might undertake it ; but the attempt would cost them thrice as much as it would cost the French, and its sows* would be more doubtful in their hands. We cannot see why the posses sion of Algiers by France, supposing another war to arise, should endanger our commerce more than the possession of Coraica did in the last ; and it, we believe, was never the means of any serious annoyance. But supposing the country to be colonized by France, its neutrality, in the event of awar arising, we think might be secured by proper stipulations awl arrangements. We care not, how evil., what method of disposing of Al giers is adopted, pro viding piracy is suppressed for ever, and a right use is made of the present Opportunity of planting civilization in a fine country, now the domain of barbarism, though situated almost within sight of Europe." We are fur from attributing to the Marquis of Lansdowne any wish to throw obstacles in the way of obtaining a lusting benefit for Europe. But we are not sure that a notice in Parliament will not be construed by our neighbours its an indication of an unworthy jealousy on the part of this country of their operations. It is as well that nations like France and England should not watch each other too narrowly.—Morning Chronicle. A reform meeting was heltl yesterday at the Free masons' Tavern. Mr. Monck, the Chairman, showed the necessity of reform, from the House of Com mons being, instead of guardians of the public purse, the sharers in it. The diplomatic -expencea of this country last year amounted to nearly 400,0001., while the whole expence of the Go vernment of the United States only amounted to 37,0001. Comparin England not with Reptiblics, hut with Monarchica l France, or despotic Austria, Russia, or Prussia, he was sure no man would say that airy of theM had a dead weight of between five anti six millions a year. These facts sink deep into men's minds. Mr. Cobbett, in a Letter to the King, in his Register of this day, touches very happily on this vulnerable part of our system ' " I beseech you to , believe that the whole of the people of England, only ersepting those who live. on the taxes, now anxiously wish success to the people of France against their Government t T beseech yon to look at the effect of the example of the American Government ;• to' consider that your brother, the Isto'King, in 'eoch of the 47 years, on an average, after lie became of age, cost this nation, more than all the Presidents of America haveioat, in the forty years that that Government has existed ; and to consider also how that Republic has towered up under tint cheap 'Government I I beseech your Majesty to think of these things; to be convinced that the world is not now in the humour to be ruled for the. stile benefit or wpm t of the rulers. The examPle . of America is a light like the sun : antral! the world beholds it. In all my ex perience, great as it has been, I have never witnessed ef fect so great and so general ae that produced by the speech, in which Sir James Graham made the toMparison between our expences end those of the Govern :tient. ' A republic! a republic ' was sounded in toy ears, frent town to town, wherever I went. I beseech your Majesty to think of these things, and not to he lulled by soft snoods. The country is tranquil; but it is the tranquillity of anxious txpectation ; ruin stares every man. ' in the face ; every man, nut Hain. on the tases wants ebingo; men do nit idle-, because' all feel that n Wile ehnny-e can be of any u,e ; the magazine of discontent is (al to the brim ; the match only is wanted." Mr. Holdionse professed himielf a convert to the necessity of ballot. lie would event conseet, he said, to let the right of voting remain its it was if be could get election. by ballot, rather than have the right of voting extended, but be . refused the ballot. Ile noticed: the statement of Mr. Hume, and ob served, " Was kludging correctly of 11111111411 nature to expect, titan when the middling and higher classes Were geverrard by the feelings of interest, and dared not disoblige those who Were more wealthy and' !rowel ftd, the humbler Clams alone should set that feeling of interest ut defiance ?" There are few tnen who have the heart to say what they know will be unpalatable to the company in which they, may hap pen - to be. We never took the opinions against ballot in the I louse for sincere. The observation of Burke with regard to Charles Towealund, that he could not exist without the favour of the House, may be upplied to Members whom we 'conld name in o sr awes day. We wilt not, however, ;tame them, because, when the general mere of a Mar's ex ertions is calculated to benefit his fellow. creatures, we would not press too severely on his occasional sacrifices to immicerity, originating us they.obviously do in constitutional, itrubility to exist without the applause of those by whom: lie is ourrounded.: lime contended strongly for ballet, and observed, that in the heat of debate he had neglectrid in the House to say what would have left no doubt as to his meintieg on the subject of Reform. This meet le4' hi memorable' on necount of the unanimity of opinion us to the advantages of the ballot. The culling it au un-English practice therefole sue ceeded.. It was a dangerous experiment ;ore the port of the higher ranks to abuse it at the time when the people hid their eyes fixed on the French dee tiunv.—Morning Chronicle. It will be Been frenn our Parliamentary report thitt the discussion of the " Lot tie taint rnhunet' to the Forgery Bill, which amendments have restored the senguinery pettalties in every instance in , which they had bsert thrown out in the Commons, was last night fixed by Sir Robert, Peel for Monday averring next. The Right Hon. Secretary stated as his reason for moving' the diseharge of the order, and postponing it to Monday, that it had been strongly nevi upon him in consequeece of the in disposttion of an Hon. Member. Who had taken ti proMinerit part in the dchates upon the cpwstioe. We trust that on Metaq night 0100 .I%hnberii who, after the most atrennoue .exertione,. had see eeeded in persuading the House of Commone tit prune away the barburous severities of , Sir Robert feel's 13:11, and to make it more conform able to sound principles of justice und the spirit of a . civilised qt., will be in attendance in their places' 'to resist the pissieg agile Bill exit now standa,strtd to save the, louse of Commons front the diareputahle: in- Cottaistency of re/cc/fug and adopting the pulliid4- /Went (!/' death ih the saint. Sessitut, We. have argued this question so often, and have put it in so lowly different points of view, that it.is difficult frffr us to bay any thing now On. the. subject' nor 6 we: ee Why we should endeavour to adduce' ad. 1 ditional arguments, if we could, as long, as • thotie which we have already advie , ced rt-- r main untstitwerad but it is with, peculiar plea • trete we e;:it tire attention of our KeoPrf to the taltniroble protest of. Lord MAW& irgeinst the Pins whirls will be found in another column, and " Who bath his quarrel just" The very existence of this and the other piratiCal States on the coast of Africa, to say nothi ng o f t h e i r long and almost undisturbed continuance, has been at all times a scandal to civilized Governments, which have not only suffered in the persons of their subjects the grossest cruelties and indignities, but have disgraced themselvel by purchaiing from time to time a forbearance tram these barbariane, which was either observed or violated as suited to their in terests or their fears. To this Miserable and de grading. Vassalage the Government of Charles X. de dared they would no longer submit ; and should the Preach persist in their career till the whole mass of , these pirates are swept from off the sea and the ' earth, they will have performed the most essential service to humanity. Laing ago what the French are now effecting ought to have been made one com mon object by all the maritime States of Europe.— That it has not been so has been owing to a mean and paltry jealousy of each other, which would even now step in to detract from the merit of an ex ploit, which, in fact, is creditable to the arms of France, although we adMit the political object may be different from the avowed one. We see no more right that Englund, Spain, Austria, or Russia, have to complain 'of tlie French .occupying Algiers, than the latter huirto - complain of our possession of Malta,. Gibraltar, or the lonimi Isles; . but, m.beri it is con-, sidered who and what it is that they'displace, we ahould any tliat, be•the change what it may, it can szareely 'fail to be one of unmixed good when coin., pared, to the abominable den of evil which it extir putesilforning Herat!. Though we would Fein ovoid the subject, we should be wanting in our duty did we not denounce to public execration the atrocious article which Hp peart d yesterday in a Morning Paper, whose syste matic libels upon the deceased Sovereign have long been the' abhorrence of every ivelle-egulated mind. The Journal in question takes credit for heving been the uniform and consistent vilifier of the. Illustrious Departed, and in this respect, indeed, the merit of consistency which is claimed must be conceded. Yes; during the greater part of his life he was the object of the malignity of this writer; his mortal remains were scarcely cold when his memory was loaded with the vilest slanders and abuse that the most depraved imagination could suggest ; and now, not the sanctity of the .tomb can shel ter him for a sipgle day agairist the unsa dated malice which can gloat with equi,l satisfaction over the death-bed or the grain. The unfortimate affair that distrubed the commencement of the late reign, and which, ,except for the page of history, ought to be for ev e r buried in oblivion, is agaiti dragged forth to suit the purposes; of the Times, Which, demands in reference to that !subject, Did we join the foul-moethed hug and cry ? Did We mingle in the base-minded putrid ? Did we flout contentedly elope; the puttid current " . Did you not, we ask, act thus ? ,Did.yottnot watch the. course of the popular current, and, when it was manifest, follow the perturbed stream.? Did you not, when the good judgment. of the people was foe the moment ntt .sled, ~when the mess of the lower ordeis . was, by , the arts of factious designing hypearites, brough t to a fearful Stat e o f excitement, did you not tlen use every expedient to fan the flume, and lead to acts of disorder a n d outrage ? Yea did; but, thanks. to Providence, the ruin which, you, your supporters and abetters, exerted yourselves to bring upon the State, was averted; your efforts were ineffectual; and any attempts at this time to malign the them ter of our late Monarch by recurrence to those :segues, must, we are convinced, be equally so. Thi3O,alii, mind has loth since regained its C~lll:- lihritun, end. will not again ,he influenced by arts employed successfully only in . times, of feetiort, to increase the violence of . papules- excitation. Another circumstance upon whixh the Times would insinuate aw accusation ; against the: lute King is, that he' was a 001111)01)8 undneeluded Motturch." We can readily believe that nothing but-the actual infliction upon - himself of bodily sufferings similac I'm these which were the lot of the !mewed di eekts-ed, could lead the callous-hearted datoferer to gipreciate the, cause of 1)18 . ticelto•ion from peblie view during hi s later days. Qerpo re a p tun the slanderer could feel,- 7 his heart ia, insensible. While the late King was .blesstd with tolerahl'e health, no Monarch ever existed who united ivith the digifitY "PProPriate. 4,.greeter degree of atlabdity and gracious co o d e , cos i on to . vs arils his sulijects ;_ we fee lll -tattnntldeca .exinophtl of this would be entirely .stipertleeets, The virtues and the es, ( Til ene e of , Geerge IV, sir s Soireitiigo 0,1,4 . stand 0n, 1. e ,height ; toe lofty te.bl rewired by, the grovelling, and .the would-be - dotroyer of his fume. liis attempts esti: during enough to call for reprobation, but they cab excite no apprehension. , ,We observe' 'Nett Alm vilifier of the late Sovereign couples hi s slanders The object--=so far as a distinct purpose can be discovered amid so much contradiction and ribaldry—is to make out that, both Sir Astley Cooper and Mr. Wardrop were, prevented from attending at Windsor, by th e i nter f erence e i t h er :of Sir William Knighton or of the physicians, against the express wish of the Royal patient himself; while it is implied that' the medical men who actually, attended 'were not aware of the nature :of the disease, and that if Mr. Ward rop's advice had been adopted, his Majesty's life might have been prolonged. These are points with regard to which we had, at the time, no positive information, but we deemed the'statements to be unfthinded, be cause we know that the reasons asligned for them were untrue. Thus we were told, as a reason why the King should have desired to. : see Sir Astley Cooper, that he had formerly s en t hi m t o a id t h e medical attendants nt the late. Duke of York, and that his Royal brother had derived great benefit from his prescriptions. Now we have stated before, and repeat, that neither of .these allegations ate founded 'on fact, and for the truth of our assertions, and the untruth of ' all thine which are different, we appeal 7 —to Sir AStle) Cooper himself, who wrote a letter to the Editor of the Ilera4l, denying the statements with re gard to the, medical part of the story—to: Mr. Simpson, the other surgeon who was in amend ance—to the physicians—end to Sir lietbert Taylor, who, toe know; is fully aware of ' the accuracy of the official. notice from which we 'have taken our information, and which appeared in the Courier at the tiine. , Again, it is said that the : physicians objected' to Sir Adis) , Cooper because ; in the case' of the Duke, of York, he insisted on affixing his, name to the bulletins; Unfortunately for this • • assertion i t nappens that no bulletins whateVer Were issued in the Duke of York's case, either before' or after the diNtingnishedßaronet was in attetlAce. • But, besides, we may observe that, in a medical case, it has not been th e cus t o m , for the sturgeons to sign the bulletins-nor in a surgical case,lor the physicians to do so. Thu's, When the late Queen Charlotte was ill, Mr. Keate attended her, with Sir Henry Halfwit anti Sir F. Millman, but did not add his name tO the bulletins . ; and when, in 1821, his late Ma jesty had a tumor extirpated from the scalp, the re-, port, which was transmitted to Lord Liverpool, was signed by the surgeons in attendanee 7 --namely, Home Mr. pine, Sir Astley (then, Mr.) . cooper, "and Mr. Brodie ; while the physicians (Sir IL Halford and Sir M. Tierney), though present at the operation, and meeting the sur geons ii consultation, did not attach their Sig natures to the document: On the present occa sion; therefore, nothing has been thine in this re. apect but' what former precedents had sant:- , tioned ; ucrr, feu ourselves, do we see any reason whatever why the long-established andjudicions usage should have been departed from. As to Sir A. Cooper, he has enjoyed too high a repo_ tation; •and; liy his skill as a surgeon, : too long ," bought gulden opinions from all • sorts' of people," to render it necessary that he st ee kt• seek for reputation in a department foreign to his own ; nor, on. the other hand, do we mean it as in any degree offensive to him, when we state that it was ,current in-the.profession, long before his Majesty's last illness, that some of those little departures from etiquette, . t o w hi c h 'we al luded in a former number, had led the King• to require the 'services' 'of another surgeon. deed, when ,Sir Astley reflects that at this tune last year a parallel was diaWn between him and U r . Eady, and ,the preference professional respectability given to the latter, by the very parties who now affect to stand up for him a having been slighted, he , can Intim no difficulty in appreciating their disinterestedness and sin cerity. - What' the exact tame' Of offence May 'have been we know not ;• but one Of the stories, most current—which, however, we only give as an on that Sir Asti e ,Y, on one oecas i on, gave his Majesty, the wholesome, but, consider jag tharelativesauations, rather injudicions,'ad, Vice—to: throw , off his retiring •habits; anal-"see more of his subjects adding,. , that if he did so, he would become the most popular titan in Europe." Whether the anecdote be true or not, no one who knoWS Sir AStles , 'S inanner Can fail to regard it AS not itatirObable ; nor, if we rememher ,the late ,Aings. jealousy of fanuli .arity, aim .be lOokeTl uptnieibinstitneifiut to have -offefuicthlkhn. : Dr. Bankbeid, whi), at the instance of the late Lord Londonderry, was • • , at one time a good deal about the King, is said to have lost .his favour for ever by having squeezed his arm, in his anxiety to give effect something he was saying ; and all remember the effect of Brummel's impertinence, in asking his Majesty, when Prince of Wales, to ring the ball. But the 'outcry about Sir Astley is merely a blind to cover the . puffing notices of :Mr. Ward rop, with respect to whom especially it is at tempted to spew that the King was not a free agent. ""Now 'the same persons who would have us believe that those about his Majesty were able ,to admit or to exclude. exactly whom they chose, inconsiderately assert that the King would not see Sir Matthew Tierney for twelve clays, while he insisted; against th e w i s h es o f hi s attendants, on seeing Mr. - Nussey ; from which it appears, according to their own chewing, that his Majesty had a will of his own, anti power to make it known, b o th as to whom he would admit and whom he would exclude from his presence —a circumstance not quite consistent with the idea of his having had Any very strong desire to see Mr. VVardrop, any more than having pre viously substituted him for Sir Astley. Cooper would seem to imply any decided predelictiou for the Baronet. But if Mr. Wardrop has grievances, let him speak out manfully in his own nen% and we have no doubt he will obtain an answer ; do not let him,' as at present, suffer the world to imagine that lie is countenancing such a system of indiscriminate slander as that now adopted by the .Lancet, in direct connexion with his name. : .No honest cause can require the aid of ribaldry and abuse to gain the public ear ; nor, if he be sincerely' desirous of bringing forward the facts 'of the case, cati he be at any loss for the means of doing so. Mr. Wardrop gave the publiehers.of this journal notice of an action, for stating that he was not in attendance on the King---why does lie not go on with 'the legal proceedings? What has occurred to change his opinions as to the liberty of the press ? We desire nothin g more earnest l y t h an ' to place all those' who were;about his late Majesty in the Witness-box. Again we ask, if Mr. Waldrop really regards this as a desirable consummation, why does he not proceed ? We shall answer, as probably, he nay not choose to do so—becaUse their'evidence would give a totally different colouring 'to the whole transaction from ,that which it has received in the pages of the . Lancet. The King,'during the, whole course of his illness, never once expressed ti desire to consult Mr. Waldrop; and when it was first stated to him that the assistance of 'a "surgeon would be re quired, lie himself desired that it might be Brodie . or Bob Keate." As to the story of Mr. Wardrop having applied the stethoscope to. his Majesty, and thus detected disease of the heart, perhaps the writer in the Lancet - will in form us why Mr. Waidrop did 'not mention this circumstance in the written opinion' of his Majesty's case, with which he favoured the. physicians subsequent to the time alluded to ?. Why did he therein state the disease, ,'accord ing to his judgment, to be gout, without Saying, one word 21 his stethoscopic 'discoveries ? As to the merit of the diagnosis and Fox nosis formed by his Majesty's phYsiciatu,—wh i m we ‘vrote upon" this subject before we argued only on general principles-nciW we speak, not on the authority of mere assertion, but from po sitive knowledge, that the physieians throughout not only were aware of the exact nature of 'the disease, and extent' of the danger, b u t th a t t h ey stated these in terms ai distinct as words conld:, make them in their communications to the Prithe Minister. Sir Henry Halford, in his letters . to the Duke of Wellington 'beginning at the em s mencetne»t, of' the King's last illness, refers to disSase,of the heaitto the incipient, effusion, before it had 'appeared externally.; ---to 'its pro bable increase, and to its inevitable result : one . consistent strain ikObserved throughout, and if any firither explanation to the public had been. deemed 'necessary, it obviously rested' with the Noble Duke to have made it. the' reasons we pointed out in a former article, as, rendering Aernporary concealment expedient, have, we be lieve, been deemed so satisfadtOry i that it is' uti.' .necessary for us to revert to that part of the subject.. Nay, more than this, we, can post tively state that.six.Or seven years ago Iris Ma jesty's physiciaris thought i t their duty.to..trauss mit a notice to Lord Liverpool, as Prime Minis ter, inforthing him that the King had - disease:l)f the heart, uid Was exposed to.the risk of suildep , deinite. For this paper search is now being . made ; and of course, 'if' found, .it will be pub lished. It is remembered by Some of *the gen tlemen about the Treasnry, as having been sub sequently in the possession of Mr: Canning dur ing the'short time he was Premier. The rea aolis for such a paper having been concealed are obvious. • As to the add uc i ng of cases as.p . arallel, where too parallelisrn , ?,i,fo,--as to thoollegation -that if Mr. Wardrop 5 proposal of practising depletions had been adopted,. his Majesty's life might have beep, proionged i or, preseryed—they , ,are, really too.ridieuloua to.merit a moment's notice.. The writer who couldr , 'assert that the appearance of blood in th e , A p gt e was alone, a ,sufbeient reason fur bleeding, and that a broken-down and ex hausted frame, with dropsy from Ossification of the - heart, could have borne such treatment — forgetful that the loss of but six' ounces blood WWI the immediate ,eause of .deatliwe say Aat such a person is incapable of appreciating medi cal reasoning, and the mere advancing of such a doctrine proves more strongly .than any reason ing. of out'a 46, that tile public are not always mistaken in the, distinction which they make'between' physicians and surgeons. Nor . can, we account fbr'thOopinions end conduct tributed.ta Mr. - Worth') in any other .Way than by supposing, Voth that be really did not under stand the nature of his Majesty ti case, and that he entirely mistook the degree to which he him lelf enjoyed the confidence of the Sovereign, That the physiciana retained, to the last the on. regard of their.reyal patient, who literall clung' to theni fox safetS, in the p a r o i ysms of his disease, and m ar k e d by many gracious express stone the gratitude of an affectionate master--= .that they satisfied the Royal Fancily and the Government, and that they did all' that inert'could . do under ,such afflicting cirCumatalices—are facts; not less incontrovertible than that the attackt, Opootheirprofessional characters are utterly un worthy of their notice. But'there is one point of 'a nature entirely different—an 'attack . upon the honour of ,one of the physicians—involving, as it appears to us, the charge of a high.inisdo• meaner, and which, on public grounds, the Go ventment ought,.we 1.1114, to insist on being brought forward in a 'court of law. It has been asked----if it be. not true that Sir Matthea Tierney signed th e. bulletins - without seeing the King, why_ Is such a libel allowed to pass unit ? aticl wo, who knoW from direct at d)(aity Lhat it, is most grossly false, echo the questiou. ; The infamy and worthlessness of the ;tnighiukource are not sufficient reasons for tie sliming it when the lie h- tas UPPtt ~;,. _ r / %lid), in force of reasoning " and energy et ekpres sion, is worthy of the great occasion which has called it forth. The firat-ground of dissent from the Lill, which his Lordship states ought to be conclusive, and would be so with any body of men, who, along, with the ambition of law-making, possessed the le. gislative capacity, is " because the Bill, as amended in the Committee, annexes or continues the punish ment of death in many cases of forgery, which crime, .however injurious to, society, is, an offence of human institution. It can only be described as a spolia tion of property unattended with 'violence : and the common feelings of mankind, the maxims of reli gion and philosophy, the authority of the most emi nent men, and the practice of the most civilized nas tions, as well as of our ancient law, are generally averse to punishing by death any crime in the per. petration of which no violence is used or intended," In reference to a certain decrease in the number of forgeries of late years, on which Sir Robert Peel laid great stress, as proving in his estimation til e sfliency of the existing laws, his Lordship says what it would severely task the Right lion. Secretary's ingenuity to meet with an effective reply. Here are his words, to which we entreat the advocates of the sanguinary punishment to give their earnest !men tion though forgeries may have become less fre quent of late years, in consequence of the resumption of cash payments, or from other causes, such recent diminution of that species of guilt cannot be reason. ably attributed to the terror of a punishment which has subsisted and been in force for nearly a century,' which, at present, in seven cases out of eight, is net inflicted, and which, when sternly and rigorotply enforced, failed to produce any such diminution. We were therefore unwilling too hastily to infer the efficacy of severity from any recent or accidental diminution of the offence; and we were confirmed in withholding our assent to such precipitate rea- Boning by reflecting that forgeries have often been, and still continue to be, more frequent in this country than they were before the ' punishment of death was annexed to that crime." The passages' which we have quoted, and indeed the whole of the " protest," display that power of reasoning equally exact and comprehensive, which is truly characte ristic of a mind adapted by nature and intelligence to the labours of enlightened legislation.' This pro test affords an additional proof that the arguments are all on one aide of this question, and the obsti nate prejudices of a few individuals, backed by Go vernment influence, at the other. As to th e fi na l result of such a conflict, we have, as we frequently stated, no doubt whatever : our only anxiety is, that the conque , t which humanity and sound justice must eventually make over the cruel errors of a bar barous aystem may be achieved with as little delay as possible, and that our Statesmen may not con tinue to be distinguished for the combined obsti nacy and weakness which only concede the improve ments which civilization demand when they find themselves incapable of further resistance.—Morn ing Herald. The conquest of Algiers is an event alike honour able to the Councils and the arms of France, which has entered upon this salutary and important under taliing in that triple armour which our poet assigns to him with adulation of his present IViajesty ; may he be as successful in the one pursuit as he has been i n the other !—Morning.Post. The language arid terms of the convention' en tered into between the French General and the Dey of Algiers, cannot possibly fail, either to attract the attention of our readers, or to excite an impression that the French Government is desirous of retain ing its conquest. The 'Dey himself is a prisoner—. the city has been surrendered into the hands of the French. without almost any.other condition, than that of resptcting the person and private : property of the Dey, and allowing him to retire to what ever place or quarter of the world he may think fit. There is no agreement to deliver the Algerine ter ritory into the hands of the - Dey when satisfaction has' been made for the insults offered to the French flag—nor even any stipulation for compen sating the invading power for the expences of the expedition—no promise to withdraw the French force on the performance of certain conditiona—nor even a hint given that it is in the contemplation of the French • Government, to withdraw it at any lime; but, on'the contrary, a somewhat broad hint that they mean to annex it to the : Crown of France. " The exercise of the Mahometan religion," says the Convention, " shall remain free ;'the liberty of the inhabitants of all classes, their religion, their property, their commerce, their industry, 'shall be inviolable; their women shall be respected ;" and, what is still more, "the General-m;-Chief promises this upon his .honour." But of what nie, let us ask, was it for the General-in-Chief to have entered into such an agreement, unless the Government, whose orders, be was executing, had instructed him to make one which should not mili tate against permanent possession ? The simpler mode of proceeding would have been to have de minded satisfaction for the cause, and pecuniary indemnity for the expence, of the war; but no allu sion is made to either, and we are consequently led to infer that • a permanent occupation is the object - with the Polignac Cabinet. How far such policy may be agreeable to the views of the British Ge vernment we have no means of knowing; but it seems plain, in . the first place, that the French would willingly establish *a new colony, arid, in the second, that the Convention 'alluded to contains nothing to prevent its accomplishment.—Morning Advertiser. SOME CIRCUMSTANCES CONNECTED with the ILLNESS of Ills LATE MAJESTY. It was our intention not to have reverted to this subject—but as we have now the means of confuting, from direct sources, some very extra ordinary and impudent misrepresentations, which have been circul a t e d w i t h an in d ustry and perse verance worthy of a better cause, we venture once more to trespass on the patience of our readers. • rt ld r o n u g gi t i r u e m v every newspaper—when the public -press, h e u so g e u u s" e i a i ePreyt'vilhlaageB .made ,the i'lan Matthew, it is said, once intended to in stitute legal proceedings ; why does he -not abide 11:i that intention ?—why is not the au thor of the calumny exposed to the punishment and th e la. ferny- which such an atrocity demands? public arc not—will not.—ought not to be fatis; fled, without -such an exposure as a court" justice, or the bar of the House of Com mons, alone can: give on an accusation so grate'inaeand. dSe; and involving public questions of such woe"' Where such a charge remains unnoticed, El' world will still suspect that there was 8 * foundation for it ; and however attacks on so professional character may be despised, the 01 ` r in question rests upon different grounds, and' our opinion ought to be met in a aro manner. For ourselves, it has been supposed, we have supported the King's medical • , ants, that we are therefore " connected them ; and even the Times ex: opinion, though they subsequently dit justice to insert our disclaimer. IVe'' repeat, what we stated before, that up period of his Majesty's decease, none facts came from any of the late King's medical or otherwise,*, and that the right or wrong, were exclusivelyour even were it not so, the arguments on L questions to which the case has given' main the same ; and if they be good; it not a rush from whom they came Medical Gazelle of July 17. . * The source of our information mil Yet satisfactory, but such as we *moot a) liberty --E. G. LONDON MARKETS. PRICES OF }LOPS...JuIy 1 5 . .1 7l Os. 71. II o - 61. 150. 71. .o 7l. Os. 7/. 1 : l i tuun Ditto. Fine 01. os. UV It Seconds 01. Or. 4 111 . , f). s. 6 Os. 51. ss. ti t . us. w 51. ISs 71. MAO Old Duty laid at .£22,000. Kent Kent Rage — Essex Ditto O PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown Os. 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