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What, indeed, could be more prepos. serous or unjust, than to leave to the well-ecipated and experienced medical man no other means of re munerating himself for the time and trouble lie expends on his patient, and for thegreat - expeuse'4 which he has been - put, in acquiring a knov.leilge of medical science, than by overloading the stomach, of his patients With boluses, and the long catalogue oy .Irugs,which, instead of being useful to them, are too often'most pernicious ? It is clearly had policy on the part of patients to pay their :medie• - al adviser fol• medicines only, inasmuch as it is holding otit tp him a certain inducement to do them harm, by an extra quantity of medicine, often to the exclti , ion of nourishment. A worse system could not have beeh sanctioned by the Legislature of a country, than that which so decidedly militates .against true me dical science, and encourages a spirit of the vilest quackery .! " The trade of draughts and poisons has received its death warrant, and ere many months have elapsed general practitioners throughout the British domi; nions will send no more medicine to their patients than is absolutely necessary, and adopt the plan of charging for their visits, and thus emitle themselves to the appellation of gentlemen and men of science.". ni John ~ when ppo.eing zscribed stating t turned stunt to v- at No. eased to ter eon ere 001 l )vve end, named 4 to his ire; the hat the , nged to to Wal- Ft-street. d stated rom the ting his P. AUBER, Secretary. .t--~ - . No. 11.667. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEI3R-UARY_ 4, 1830 PRICE 7D. first Saturday of every month. It must not, however, bo classed arming the ephemeral periodicals of the day, but ra ther shook' be considered as a st indard work upon this im portant subject, and one equally well adapted to the cot tage and the mansion library."—Londdn Congregat:onal Magazine. 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DU COIDe y three by gi Will Las' 62, GlourestPr-place, Portman-square, Feb: 3, 1830. ;lye anY LA®' what ? _Loud wish to John Murray, Albemarle-street. r stand y great 328, he ion, for being ). he had the sale rreet eds of No - I Bencb I, to the ' which iren and hie ce w;.3' was or De other s CourC wice 10 wax, be cich. •arr ring fighter.) 324, by brought in that es, and tad not petition Lieu ,ter, ad : glaring r the la- G race's pinions, :en, the nopriat- owners actice le but the he over h it eau system ; ild wirli •ed gene , yolun the full chial re sarochisl s of on aw-plat- ford re mselyes. set up. procuresi, le Magi- I rapidly only in the coo per say, opinions to be at which Lod great 11-house, heath, re, .Mrs. n, tte ull,t4r Russell late S'y irt., ' 0 ,loucew right. or -squat e, r of his Capt. pilaster ey-1 we, J. Fitz- lapham- 4G, AT TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EA SI INDIA STOCK. LADIKS AND GIENTLIMIEN, AVACANCY in the DIRECTION hav ing occurred by the Death of the much-respected Mr. Plowden, I feel myself called upon to renew my so licitation of your support. and to declare my determination to proceed to the Ballot on the next Vacancy. The result of my Canvas gives me the fairest hope of success, and sour increased favour will realie the Prospect. Permit me, in reference to my address to you on a fo rmer occasion, to rePett, that, when placed in the honourable situation to which I aspire, my time and la st exertions shall he unceasingly devoted to your interests. I have the honour to be, very respectfully, Ladies and Gentlemen, • Your faithful and obliged servant, JOHN FORBES. 15, Harley. street, Feb. 3, 1S:30. TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. 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A LRIFF HISTORY OF THE PROTESTANT i'ORMATION IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRE 'ND, intended as a Vindication of it from the M isrc '4'sentations and Aspersions of William Cobbett, by the Author of " The Protestant." Price 4s. Those who wish to see Mr. Cohbett more than i Tatched, should possess themselves of this invaluable pub teation. It is not saying too much of Mr. APGavin to assert that he is one of the most enlightened Protestants in Christendom. The whole controversy stands before his Tmittd iu the order of perfect arrangement, and Mr. Cob- Zt,!'appearslike a child in the hands of a giant. Posterity It - gel: L illy acknowledge its obligations to this incom "rative advocate."—Evangelical Magazine. 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The following is General Wellesley's reply to a letter in which Mr. Munro had questioned the wis dom of certain movements preceding the battle of Assaye:— , " Camp at Cherikain, N0v..1,.1803„ " MY DEAR MUNRO,—As you are a judge of a military operation, and as I am desirous of having your opinion on my side, I am about to give you an account of the battle at Asiaye, in answer to your letter of the 19th of October; in which I think I shall solve all the doubts which must naturally occur to any man who looks at that transaction without a sufficient knowledge of the facts. Before you re ceive this you will most probably have seen my public letter to the Governor-General regarding the action, a copy of which was sent to General Camp bell. That letter will give you a general outline of the facts. Your principal objection to the action is, that I detached Colonel Stevenson. The fact is, I did not detach Colonel Stevenson. His was a sepa rate corps equally strong, if not stronger than mine. We ►were desirous to engage the enemy at the same time, and settled a plan accordingly for an attack on the morning of the 24th. We separated on the 22d—he to march by the western, I by the ' eastern road, round the hills between Budnapore and Jalna; and I have to observe that this separation was necessary—first, because both corps could not pass through the same defiles in one day ; secondly because it was to be apprehended that if we left, open one of the roads through those hills the enemy might have passed to the southward while we were going to the northward, and then the action would have been delayed, or probably avoided altogether, Colonel Stevenson and I were never more than 12 miles distant from each other, and when I moved forward to the action of the 23d, we were not much more than eight miles. As usual, we de. pended for our intelligence of the enemy's position on the common hircarrahs of the country. Their horse was so numerous, that without an army their position could not be reconnoitred by an European officer; and even the hircarrahs in our owm service, who were accustomed to examine and report on positions, cannot be employed here, as, being na tives of the Carnatic, they are as well known as an European. " The hircarrahs reported the enemy to be at Bokerdun. heir right was at Bokerdun, which was the principal place in their position, and gave the name to the district in which they were en camped ; but their left, in which was their infantry, which I was to attack, was at Assaye, which was six or eight miles from Bokerdun. " I directed my march so as to be within twelve or fourteen miles of their army at Bokerdun, as I thought, on the 23d. But when I arrived at the ground of encampment, I found that I was not more than five or six miles from it. I was then informed that the cavalry had marched, and the infantry was about to follow, but was still on the ground; at all events, it was necessary to ascertain these points; and I could not venture to reconnoitre with out my whole force. But I believed the report to be true, and I detertnin ed to attack the infantry if it still remained upon the ground. I apprised Colonel Stevenson of this determination, and desired him to move forward. Upon marching on I found not only their infantry, but their cavalry, encamped in a most formidable position, which, by the bye, it would have been impossible for me to attack, if, when the infantry changed their front, they had taken care to occupy the only passage there was across the Kaitna. t , When I found their whole army, and contem plated their position, of course I considered whether I should attack immediately, or should delay till the following morning. I determined upon the imme diate attack, because it was clear that if I attempted to return to my camp at Naulmah I should have been followed thither by the whole of the enemy's cavalry, and I might have suffered some loss; in stead of attacking, I might have been attacked there in the morning; and, at all events, I should have found it very difficult to secure my baggage, as I did, in any place so near the enemy's camp, in which they should know it was: I therefore determined upon the attack immediately. ." It was certainly a most desperate one; but our guns were not silenced. Our bullocks, and the peo pie Mid were employed to draw them, were shot, and they could not all be drawn on ; but some were,. and all continued to fire as long as the fire could be of arty .use. " Desperate as the action was our loss would not have-exceeded one-half of its present amount if it had not . been for a mistake in the officer who led the picquets which were on thu `right of the first line. " When the enemy changed their position, they threw theirdeft to Assaye, in. which village they had some infantry ; and it was surrounded by cannon. — As soon as I saw that I directed 114 e officer com manding the picquets to keep 'Out -of shot from the .village; instead of that he-led direr ly upon it; the 79th, which were on the right - of the first line, fol lowed the picquets, and the great loss we sustained was in these two bodies. :Another evil-Which re sulted from this` mistake was -the ,necessity of intro ducing the cavalry into the cannonade and the ac tion, long befOreit was- time, by which that corps lost many -men, and its utility . and efficiency, which I intended to bring forward in a don pursuit .at`the heel of the day. But it was necessary to Wring for ward the cavalry to save the remains of the 79th and the picquets, which would otherwise.have been entirely 'destroyed. -Another- evil from it was, that we bad then no reserve lefl,:and a parcel of straggling horse cut up our wounded ; and straggling infantry, who had pretended to be dead, turned their tuns upon our backs. " After all, notwithstanding this attack upon Assaye by our right and the cavalry, no impression was made upon the corps collected there till I made a movement upon it with some troops taken from our left, after the enemy's right had been defeated; and it would have been as well to have left it alone entirely till that movement was made. However, I do not wish to cast any reflection upon the officer who led the picquets. I lament the consequences of his mistake ; but 1 must acknowledge that it was not possible for a man to lead a body into a hotter fire than he did the picquets on that day against Assaye. " After the action there was no pursuit, because our cavalry was not then in a state to pursue. It was near dark when the action was over ; and we passed the night on the field of battle. ' Colonel Stevenson marched with part of his corps as soon as he heard that I was about to move forward, and he also moved upon Bokerdun. He did not receive my letter till evening. He got en tangled in a nullah in the night, and arrived at Bo kerdun, about eight miles from me to the westward, at eight in the morning of the 24th. " The enemy passed 'the night of the 23d at about twelve miles from the field of battle, twelve from the Adjuntee Ghaut, and eight from Boker dun. As soon as they heard that Colonel Steven son was advancing to the latter place they set off, and never stopped till they had got down the Ghaut, where they arrived in the course of the night of the 24th. After his difficulties of the night of the 23d, Colonel Stevenson was in no state to follow them, and did not do so till the 26th. The reason for which he was detained till that day was, that I might have the benefit of the assistance of his stir . - geons to dress my wounded soldiers, many of whom, after all, were not dressed for nearly a week, for want of the necessary number of medical men. had also a long and difficult negotiation with the Nizam's sirdats, to induce them to admit my wounded into any of the Nizam's forts; and I could not allow them to depart until I had settled that point. Besides, I knew that the enemy had passed the Ghaut, and that to pursue them a day sooner or rt day later could make no difference. — Since the battle Stevenson has taken Barham poor and Asseergur. I have defended the Nizam's territories. They first threatened them through the Caperhay Ghaut, and I moved to the southward to the neighbourhood of Arungabad. I then saw clearly that they intended to attempt the siege of Asseergur, and I moved up to the north ward, and descended the Adjuntee Ghaut, and stopped Scind:ah. Stevenson took Asseergur on the 21st. I heard the intelligence on the 24th, and that the Rajah of Berar had come to the south with an army. I ascended the Ghat on the 25th, and have marched a hundred anal twenty miles since in eight days, by which I have saved all our convoys, and the Nizam's territories. I have been near the Rajah of Berar two days, in the course of which he has marched five times; and I suspect that he is now off to his own country, finding that he can do nothing in this. If that is the case I shall soon begin an offensive operation there. " But these exertions, I fear, cannot last ; and yet, if they are relaxed, such is the total absence of all government, and means of defence in this country, that it must fall. It makes me sick to have any thing to do with them ; and it is impossible to de scribe their state. Pray exeit yourself for Bistnapah Pundit, and believe me ever your's most sincerely, " ARTHUR WELLESLEY." MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS. The following observations upon a late decision in the Court of King's Bench are copied from Dr. Reece's Gazelle of Health for the present month:— " Mr. James Handey, a respectable general prac titioner, had attended the child, wife, and mother in-law of an attorney of London, for which he made the ch9rge of 71. Os. Gd.; namely, 1/. 159. 6d. fur medicine, and Si. ss. for attendance, being at the rate of 7s. Gd. a visit. The attorney refusing to pay the charge for attendance, Mr. Handey brought an action for its recovery, which the attorney con fidently defended, supposing that the charge for at tendance would not be allowed, and therefore, even if the plaintiff could prove the delivery of all the medicine, he would he entitled to his costs. " After the plaintiff's case had been made out by satisfactory proofs of the delivery of medicines and of attendance, the Lord Chief Justice, with that impartiality and judgment for which he is so justly celebrated, in his address to the intelligent Jury, ob served, there does not seem to be much dispute as to the charge for the medicines, but for the visits, and of these, it is said, there is no proof ; but I can not see how a medical man is to prove these attend ances. It may be said, that when he makes them he has his servant behind his carriage or with him, but what can that servant prove ? The opposing Counsel says that the persons in the house of the patient might have been called to prove the attend ances ; but how are they to be got at, or bow are their names to be obtained? I cannot see, if a me dical gentleman pursues the some honourable plan which this gentleman has done, of not sending in large and useless quantities of medicine, how he is to be remunerated, but by being paid for his attendances.' " The Jury, after a minute's consideration, re twuirtnhedcoastvs.erdict for the plaintiff, damages 71. Os. 6d. " A more important decision to general practi- throughout are iranks, surprised ks tioners and to the public not having b een ma de for at many the great noise or at the joy with whic h it has b een hailed. This decision establishes the i mportant point, that a gene ralit court iias of law, made ‘ e e not , practitioner may recover in a court of law for visits, while it is well known a pure phy s i c i an cannot . We have for a period of fifteen years, in the pages of this Journal, endeavoured to show the pro priety of propel ly educated general practitioners titian 'cloning the system of drenching their patients will., , medicines, for the purpose of remunerating themselveL THE TOMB OF ,RACHEL Froni Carne's Recollection: of Travels in the East.l , c A few miles further on are the ruins of the village of ; fragments of walls, only ri few' feet high, are now the vestiges -of the place where the Prophet so beautifully predicted thd mourning for the Innocent. There is a spot on the plain, at no great distance from the ruined village, of much higher interest,—the tomb of RacheL It is one of the few places Where the observer is persuaded that tradition has not erred ; as it fulfils literally the words of Israel in his last hour, when dwelling on the only in delible remembrance that earth seemed to claim from him. The long exile, the converse with the angels of God, the wealth and greatness which had gathered round him, all yield to the image of the loved and faithful wife ; And as for me, Rachel died by me, in the way from Bethlehem, and I buried her there.' " The spot is as wild and solitary as can well be conceived ; no palms or cypresses give their shelter from the blast ; not a single tree spreads its shade where the ashes ofthe beautiful mother of Israel rest. Yet there is something in this sepulchre in the wilderness, that excites a deeper interest than more splendid or revered ones. The tombs of Zacharias and Absalom, in the valley of Jehosaphat, or of the Kings in the plain of Jeremiah, the traveller looks at with careless in difference, beside that of Rachel his fancy wanders to the land of the people of the East,' to the power of beauty that could so long make banishment sweet ; to the devoted compa nion of the wanderer, who deemed all troubles light for her sake. " The Turks have surrounded most of the burial places of the chief characters of the Old. Testament, with more pomp and stately observ ance than this : over that of David and Solo mon, on the declivity of Zion, a mosque is erected ; the cave too of Machpelah, at Hebron, is covered by a large and ancient Mosque, and all around, the soil is held inviolable. The cave is in the middle of the interior of the edifice ; its dark and deep entrance only is visible ; and it is rarely entered, even by the steps of the faithful. For more than a century, not more than two or three Europeans are known, either by during or bribery, to have visited it ; the last was an Italian Count, a traveller, who, by pay ing very high, was allowed by his guardians to tread the floor of the mosque, and descend into the obscurity of the hallowed cavern ; this was thirty years since. It is a great pity that so memorable a scene should be closed to the curi ous eye ; the bold valley in which the ancient town of Hebron stands is often visited by the steps of the pilgrim and the traveller ; but the penalty of death to every Christian who enters within the walls of the mosque, is too dear a payment for the gratification. The cave is said by the Turks to be deep and very spacious, cut out of the solid rock ; and that the resting places of the celebrated patriarchs still exist, and are plainly to be discerned. " The tribute paid, however, by the followers of the Prophet to the burial-place of Rachel, is far more sincere and impressive, than walls of marble or gilded domes ; the desire which the Turks feel that their ashes may rest near her's, is singular and extreme. All around this simple tomb, lie thickly strewn the graves of the Mus sulmans. A trait such as this, speaks more for the character of this people, than many volumes written in their praise ; for it cannot be for any greatness, or wisdom, or holiness, in the charac ter of her who sleeps beneath, (for which quali ties they show so much respect to the sepulchres of Abraham, of David, and his son)—but simply _ _ for the high domestic virtues and qualities which belong to Rachel, she was a devoted wife and an excellent mother, as well as the parent of a mighty people ; and for these things do the Turks venerate her memory. " It is a scene of no common interest, when a funeral train issues from the gate of the city; and passing slowly over the plain of Rephidim, draws nigh the lonely sepulchre, with an earnest desire that the parent or child whose remains they bear, may sleep in a spot so venerated. Was a Jew to cross the procession, at this mo ment, he would be treated with deep curses, and looks of hatred and scorn, by the very people who arc about to kneel around the ashes of one of his ancestors. Deeply fallen nation forbidden even to draw near or bow down at the place that is full of the remembrance of its ancient greatness. So rigidly are the Jews ex cluded from entering the monument, that the four arches which support the simple dome have been filled up. The band of mourners stand round the place, and the turban is bowed to the earth, while the funeral wail passes over the soli tary waste, solemn and impressive, as if the spirits of the prophets themselves had come back, and saw the desolation of their land. " No splendid pillars of wood or stone, with inscriptions in letters of gold, are here, not a single memorial, which this people are otherwise so fond of erecting in their cemeteries. It seems to he sufficient, that they are placed beneath the favourite sod ; and small and numerous mounds, over which the survivor sometimes comes and weeps, which mark the places of the graves. I f it be beautiful, in the splendid cemetery of Pere la Chaise, to see the widow or the orphan planting flowers over the ashes of the departed, and bath ing them with their tears, it is surely more im pressive to see the Oriental, in his simple and flowing garb, like that worn perhaps in patriar chal days, mourning over the lonely grave in the wilderness, where human pride and vanity cannot come." Three persons, a father, mother, and child, narrowly escaped death by poison at East Winch, Norfolk, on Monday week. It appears that a rrantity of arsenic had been put into the water from which the tea was made ':or breakfast.— &Pa 1161 dad.