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BAKEWELL. a Giles, Anna kinson, son of lughter If sister t, Jane mmerly '41.. ►n ' Liver kefield. , near Esq., 'rather hew to taghe ; , archi- Mr. L, Veers, Eliza. At, of is 90th t lived mother lied in to 487. rife of vson. '9, Mr. Here- 'eford. of the npton, r Esq., 'ottori, year, , aged in, of lelope d only tham 4COTI, Vylie, aged Eliza aged r and man, nt in F,aat ;hire, then nerly the 'bone were spec died. :tined hour "'Wt. Was, from the year 1824, afflicted with chronic l ernatism, Costiveness, a severe Bilious Complaint, I gretion, Flatulency, Nervous Irritability, &c., &c. ; "I which, I now find, were occasione d b y the inapt'- 'of the blood. 1 consulted, and h a d the advice of l ief l of the Faculty, for which I feel in dut y bound to that they did their utmost to relieve my sufferings. ,:of the above M.D.s candid l y informed me that ti ', Was a very complicated case , sufficient to baffle any roil man, and that nothing short of powerful medicine l . i'l meet my complaint. A s a last resource I placed CO under his care, and took very powerful medicine. ( 4.. as I ,;rcan recollect, the compound was comp osed ligydrage, Calomel, Nitre, and Colchicum. After 1 1 pl the above, for a considera ble time, took enti lof the Blue Pill ; and by way of an antidote, I took lt Draughts and Castor Oil. This was in the winter a, during the latter part of which, in consequence of I •excruciating pain, attended with a damp perspif °) I was obliged to take my breakfast in bed 1 4 t1 : 1 1' morning, for a very considerable time— t, after having been at a considerable expense, I despaired 4„ , ' , er being cured. I remained thus afflicted until ?,, Month of March, 133 2 , when a g entleman in my l i l 4bourhood, a part of whose family had been cured by l rison's Universal Medicines , reques t e d me to ti y them ; ', q ll its my case was so de s p erate that I considered it kt 'Ping against hope" to expect relief from anything, I Nf ::tit refused, but from his calling the third time, and luting me to two highly respectable gentlemen in the Lb on whom I called, they kin dl y informed me that they l l received great benefit, and that / 0 they should not re -14.' ) ,"e 4 doctor to enter their hou se a g ain." I then corn reed a course of the above in valuable medicine with "rison' s Cleansing Powders. t , l iaving been introduced to y our active and valuable 4 " 1 , Mr. Haydon , I was e mboldened to commence with , at confidence which has full y confirmed his well-founded } 'eviction of the virtues and powers of the medicines. PrObably, Gentlemen, you may recollect my calling l an you about the early part of the spring of 1832, %tin g that I had suffered severely for years past with * tonic rheumatism in my leg and thigh, the use % it Which I had nearly lost. I h ad then taken 4_ medlcine eight weeks , a nd was takin g eight kr i . each day, with powder s three times p er diem. k ter stating my sufferings, Mr. Moat informed me that , 1 / 4 !, case was a desperate one, and that nothing but time 1 1 / 4 ' perseverance would ever effect a radical cure, as the Ik ti Monous humours were located on the above parts. 41 1. ... M. at the same time, wished . me to increase the dose , t ,' pill each night. At the expiration of another eight 1 / 4 ''lEs I again called at the college, at which time I was ‘, 'og - -sixteen pills per dose. I well recollect my obser -I,:ition at th e time, which was to this effect, that I did not h 40 7 how to speak sufficiently in praise of the medicine ; 10 my bodily health, but my leg and thigh had not jo'rived the least benefit. About this period, in addition the above complaints, I was afflicted with paralysis. 1 Y instructions were to increase the dose up to thirty pills ,t l l dose daily, which, in due time, I did, and con tlleed constantly taking them , va r y in g the dose from thirty ° fifty, and even to sixt y ; and after a considerable time r 41 11 t h e commencement of taki n g the medicine, all the b efore-mentioned disorders, being subdued, were rapidly 'd eparting, and my suffering limbs were perfectly cured, the 14 c of which I have enjoyed unreservedly to the present ti t ,, e. At this particular period, my intimate friends and leighbours often said tha t i f I p ersisted in taking the l'edicine, I should surely kill myself, as they observed 1 41 Y very appearance portrayed that I was going into my grav e as fast as I cou ld. M y g eneral answer was, ' I 'M I should persevere with the medicine whatever might 1 the consequence : and that I should not only look ‘b etter, but that I sh ould ultimatel y be perfectly cured. leaving received an epidemical complaint since the above ores, which caused, according to the usual phraseology, t i violent inflammation in m y face, eyes, and ears, ' took ninety pills in twenty-four hours, and various d oses f ea ch day, until that complaint was eradicated flor a nay frame. And on another o c casion I took one h undred and eighty-four pills in four days. lam so fully c onvinced of the fact that Morison's Universal Medicine is free from any destructive principle, that I should not ° biect to take from thirty to forty pills per day for six mouths to come, even without powders, now that the actin:lol3oos humours are extracted from the system. And lastly, I have taken the pills more or less daily since the commencement, never omitting, except when on the Jury at the Court of Common Pleas, &c. &c. One of the greatest reasons of my not writing before, was in come loence of a number of ladies and gentlemen wishing me not to do so, as they have o ften observed they approved of 13 ) , case better than any, as I did not write or puff about 't; they well knowing it to be a true one. Now, Gentlemen, after having given you the above account respecting my own astonishing cure, and the ' efficacy of your invaluable Medicine, I beg to observe, that having experienced such great benefit from it roystlf, I feel anxious to communicate the same to other given up %offerers ; and although I have not forwarded to you a list °f cures, during my agency, up to the present time, yet I beg to say I have been very successful in curing, with your Medicines, a great number of persons afflicted with Consumption, Rheumatism, Paralysis, Tendency of Blood to the Head, Gout, Scurvy, Bilious, Indigestion, Flatu lency, Nervous Irritability, and a variety of other die- Orders, a number of which, respectably attested, I intend 1 Presenting to you and the public, in my annual report. As to Morison's Universal Medicine being perfectly safe 1 sad superior to any other medicine, I believe to be as true 55 Heaven. I am, Gentlemen, yours respectfully, THOMAS GARDNER. 95, Wood-street, Cheapside, London, Dec. 12, 1833. To the Editor of the " NEW WE EKL Y DISPATCH." Sir,—We had prepared a full, and, as we feel assured, a complete and unanswerable refutation of the continued calumnies heaped upon us and our medicines, in the " Weekly Dispatch ;" but, as these calumnies assumed a more definite, as well as more serious form, we, on mature consideratior, deem it a duty to o urselves and to the public (being a na tional conc e rn ) , to place the matter in the hands of our legal advisers, in order that the truth, or falsehood, of the charges may be investigated by the most approved tribunal. To the result of that investigation we look with the utmost confidence for success; and that we Lave sought the investigation, at least justifies us in askini , that t he public will, in the e, mean tim suspend their judgment. AIORISON and MOAT. ‘Londom,olOtb December, 1833. COUN'TY FIRE OFFICE, ! 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ABSENCE.—Thorlacius, the Danish Grose, whilst riding out for his amusement one evening, was in such earnest confab with his companion, a portly f,lio on Scandinavian antiquities, as altogether to forget that his steed required any earthly care from hint. The animal, left therefore to its own impulses, roamed along the side of a ditch, nibbling at the grass which grew upon it but, being at the moment as absent as his master, suddenly made a false step, and, in the endeavour to recover his footing, discharged the antiquarian and his chum into the grassy bottom beneath. The descent was soft and gentle; the couch, smooth and kindly ; and there Thorlacius lay, intently continuing his devotions, as if be had never parted with pomme l or stirru p . Some half an hour afterwards, an acquaintance of his, chancing to be driving homewards, past the scholar's verdant stwdio drew up, and invited him to take a seat beside him, " Vastly obliged," replied our antiquarian ; out of humour with the interruption, " can't you see, Sir, I'm taking my rite?" Wherewith he and the Scandinavian tome were instanter locked again in close confab. VELOCITY AND MAGNITUDE OF WAVES. —The velocity of waves has relation to their magnitude. Some large as ayes proceed at the rate of from thirty to forty miles an hour. It is a vulgar belief that the water itself advances with the speed of the wave, but in fact the form only advances, while the substance, except a little spray above, remains rising and falling in the same place, according to the laws of the pendulum. A wave of water in this respect, is exactly imitated by the wave running along a stretched rope when one end is shaken; or by the mimic waves of our theatres, which are generally the undulations of long pieces of carpet, moved by attendants. But when a wave reaches a shallow bank or beach, the water becomes really progressive, because then, as it cannot sink directly downwards, it falls over and forward, seeking its level. So awful is the spectacle of a storm at sea, that it is generally viewed through a medium which biasses the judgment; and lofty as waves generally are, imagina tion makes them loftier still. No wave rises more than ten feet above the ordinary level, which, with the ten feet that its surface afterwards descends below this, gives twenty feet for the whole height, from the bottom of any water.valley to the summit. This proposition is easily proved, by trying the height upon a ship's mast at which the horizon is always in sight over the tops of the waves; allowance being made for accidental inclinations of the vessel, and for her sinking in the water to much below her water line at the instant when she reaches the bottom of the hollow between two waves. The spray of the sea, driven along by the violence of the wind, is of course much higher than the summit of the liquid wave ; and a wave coming against an obstacle, may dash to almost any elevation above it. At the Eddystone lighthouse, when a surge reaches it, which has been growing under a storm all the way across the Atlantic, it dashes even over the lan tern at the sum mit.—.Arriott's Elements of Physics. MARRIAGE DISAPPOINTMENT OF MRS. HANNAH MOR.E.-What were the exact circumstances under which it took place, I have never been able to as certain. A scandalous report prevailed for many years, and it was even adopted into books and pamphlets, that she had borne an illegitimate child to some gentleman under a solemn assurance of marriage, and that the gentleman had afterwards retreated from his engagements ; and I remember well that a celebrated poet of our day expressed his disappointment, upon my discrediting to him the whole of that story as a fiction of malignity. However, there certainly was some story of a delicate nature, in the belief of some of Mrs. More's best friends, con nected with the rupture of her marriage engagement; and I have received the following as the true facts, limn a clergyman of great respectability, and a friend of Mrs. Hannah More:—The morning was fixed for the marriage ; Miss More's friends were all in attend ance, and, after breakfasting together, had actually pro ceeded to the church, where, by appointment, they were to meet the bridegroom. They actually waited above an hour in the porch, looking out for his arrival, and as yet with no suspicion of his dishonourable intentions. At length a single horseman was seen approaching ; he ad vanced to the steps, dismounted, and presented to Miss More a letter, in which the gentleman pleaded simply, as a reason for receding from his engagements, that he could not bring his mind, at the hour of crisis, to so solemn and so irrevocable a contract. He offered, however, to make such reparation as could be made in a pecuniary sense to Miss More ; but this intention, if he really had it at the time, would, no doubt, have died away as soon as the immediate difficulty was overcome. The friends of Miss More, aware of that, pressed him vigorously, and would grant no delay. The sequel was, that rather than stand a prosecution, he settled on Miss More a handsome provision, my informant believed not lees but rather more than 4001. per annum for life.— Tait's Magazine. Parrots are sometimes extremely quick at picking up certain words that happen to strike their ears; and tbis they often do very untowardly, so as afterwards to repeat them with an apparently mischievous intent. We remember a parrot which belonged to a lady, which was the innocent means of getting his mistress into a very un fortunate scrape. A friend of hers having called one forenoon, the conversation of the two ladies took that turn towards petty scandal to which, we grieve to say, it is too frequently bent. The friend mentioned the name of a lady of their acquaintance. " Mrs. B—!" exclaimed the owner of the parrot, " Mrs. B— drinks like a fish." These words were hardly uttered, when the footman, in a loud voice, announced Mrs. B-- ; and as the new visiter —a portly, proud dame, came sailing into the room,— exclaimede no Ar short time to " Mrs. B— !" exclaimed the parrot, " Mrs. B drinks like a fish." Mrs. B--- wheeled round with the celerity of a troop of heavy dragoons, furiously, to con front her unknown and base maligner. " Mrs. B i' s cried the parrot again, " Mrs. B— drinks like a fish." prepare. the lady It o s f h o t sv h the house, " this is a piece of wickedness towards e which ' co ' n 1% 11 1: d h a a m v e , " taken you the blackness of your heart towards one for whom you have long pretended a friendship; but I shall be revenged." It was in vain that the mistress of tiae parrot rose and protested her innocence; Mrs. B--- flounced out of the room in a storm of rage, much too loud to admit of the voice of reason being heard. The parrot, delighted with his new caught-up words, did nothing for some days but shout out, at the top of his most unmusical voice, "Mrs. 13.-- ! Mrs. B-- drinks like a fish." Meantime, Mrs. 8—.....28 lawyers, having once taken up the scent, suc ceeded in ferretting out information that ultimately produced written proofs, furnished by some secret enemy, that the lady's imprudence in the propagation of this scandal bad not been confined to the instance we have mentioned. An action at law was raised for defamation. The parrot was arrested and carried into court, to give oral testimony to the malignity of the plot which seas supposed to hwasave been g ood fame ; aud he by no laid against Mrs. B--- -2° means niggardly of his te stimony, for to the great amuse mentbar of the benc h, the , and all present, he waB no than he began and continue , l loudly to sooner produced , .Mrs. 13-- . Mrs. B-- drinks like a vociferate, ' fi s h I" till Judge and Jury were alike satisfied of the merits of the case; and the result was, the poor owner of the parr otwas cast wit immense damages.—Miset - Iluny of No le/History. DIVIDENDS. I. Aguilar, merchant, Devonshire-street, Jan. 10, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy—NV. R. Mott, tavern-keeper, 'Ehrogmorton-street, Dec. 31, at one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy—R. Mercer, C. Ely, and B. Treacher, coal merchants, Swansea, Glamorgan, Jan. 10, at eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy—W. Hambly, merchant, Great Bell-alley, Coleman street, Jan. 13, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy—H. Cooper, paper-manufacturer, Upper Clapton, Jan. 3, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy—L. Zachariah and G. Novra, dealers in toys, High Holborn, Jan. 13, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy—T. Birks, sen., candle-manufacturer, Marl borough-road, Chelsea, Jan. 13, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy—J. Bamsey, master-mariner, Devonport-street, Commercial-road, Jan. 11, at eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy—P. Barker, grocer, Cambridge, Jan. 15, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy—E. Rawlings, tanner, Bexley, Jan. 14, at ten, at the Court of Bankruptcy—W. Corp, carpenter, Tower-street, Jan. 14, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy — W. Short, cabinet-maker, Henrietta-street, Brunswick-square, Jan. 17, at half-past ten, at the Court of Bankruptcy—G. Rounthwaite, tavern-keeper, Bear-Street, Leicester-square, Jan. 10, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy—H. Lee, sad dler, Dover-street, Piccadilly, Jan. 11, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy—W. Delamain, wine.merchant, Wells-street, Marylebone, Jan. 10, at half-past ten, A the Court of Bank ruptcy—W. Bourne, woollen-draper, Coleman street, Jan. 11, at ten, at the Court of Bankruptcy—D. Kincaid, silk-manufac turer, Spittal-square, Jan. 10, at twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy—J. Britain, grocer, Ripon, Jan. 14, at eleven, at the Office of Messrs. Blanchard and Richardson, York—J. Apple. yard, dyer, Leeds, Jan. 13, at twelve, at the Court-house, Leeds—J. Watling, merchant, Southtown, otherwise Little Yarmouth, Feb. 5, at ten, at the Duke's Head, Great Yar mouth—J. Singleton, chymist, Rugeley, Jan. 14, at twelve, at the Talbot Arms Inn, Rugeley—J. Clark, basket-maker. Keynsham, Jan. 11, at eleven, at the White Lion Inn, Bristol CERTIFICATES.—JaN. 10. A. Hickson, grocer, Horncastle—J. Q. Rumball, surgeon, 'Melina-place, St. John's Wood—T. Witter, builder, Liverpool —B. T. Clark, corn.merchant, Lakenham—T. Statham, jun., cattle-dealer, late of Clunton—E. Bell, dealer in carriages, Horse Bazaar, King.street, Portman-square—W. Twycross, leather-dresser, Godalming—L. Wood, cowkeeper, Tabernacle walk—M. Gateley, victualler, Birmingham—J. Painter, inn keeper. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. C. and S. R. Kelly, printers, Houndsditch—C. Hamper and E. Mountford, silk.mercers, Bath—W. J. Willett and G Larken, attorneys, Essex-street, Strand—W. and T. Delany, cordwainers, Upper Whitecross.street—S. Chesterman and G. Mullins, surgeons, Upper Baker-street—A. Shores and E. Stew_ ard, cabinet makers, York—J. M. Jones and J. Bolton, paper_ stainers, Penton-row, Walworth—F. and W. Dunhill, liquor ice-growers, Pontefract, Yorkshire—J. and Jos. Lewis, linen. drapers, Lambeth-walk—T. and S. Hague, builders, Sheffield park, Sheffield— T. Neville, G. T. Prist, and E. A. Winter, tallow.chandlers (so far as regards G. T. Prist)—T. Brockwell and R. Dc Lannoy, silk-brokers, Manchester. ORIGINAL ANECDOTE OF SIR WALTER Scorn.—The following anecdote of the late Sir Walter Scott can be relied on, and we believe was never before published. When his eldest son, then Captain Scott, wa , quartered in this town, he was struck by an inscription which appears over a gateway leading to the ruin called " Peter's Port," in the following words : " Oh may not Satan's agents enter, Will-o'-the-Wisp, or Jack the Printer." It seemed to Captain Scott to bear the mark of antiquity, and having a letter nearly concluded to his illustrious father he inserted this inscription without any comment, except merely describing where he found it. In the course of a few weeks after be received from his father a copy of the last published novel, accomp:nied with fifteen pages of manuscript, closely written, to prove the inscription ought to have been " Jack the Painter," and that Will.o'-the- Wisp was one of his confederates; and that after deep research he had discovered that " Jack the Painter,' who was hanged at Edinburgh, had once visited Ireland, and he supposed had made himself so notorious at Athlone, Lv his villaniee and vices, as to cause this memento of him to be placed on the gates of the town, " but that this n t e e evert this e been n solid known squ as a t visiter a r could be easily determined by some of th e old inhabitants of the town." Pursuant to his father's wishes th e gallan t captain made the inquiry , the resu lt of which was, that no such person orsojourner aa Jack i t nheAPthailoPr , h and adha t b originated from private feeling. The „fact was, three id our townsmen were anxious to acquire property that adjoined each other's premises ; after two were successful the disappointed man erected this monument to hand down the memory of his opponents to posterity. We can add that both have procured for themselves the kind remem brance of their fellow townsmen; the one, by his un bounded charity, and anxious desire to do all the good to his power; the other (now no more) by the establishing of one of the best papers Dublin can boast of.—Athlone Independent. CHEAP LIBRARY OF IRISH ROMANCE. In Course of Monthly P u blication, on the same plan as Colburn'a Modern Novelists, handsomely printed in post Svo., and bound in Morocco Cloth, price only 45. per Volume, IRISH NATIO NAL TALES. 1- By the most Distinguished Modern Authors. 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