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1 V //t EVENING EDITION. UND ON AND WESTMINSTER MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, for Assurance on Lives and Survivorships, for Granting Annuities, Loans, Endowments to Children, mil for the purchase of Re versionary and other Interests. PATRON. The Most Noble the MARQUIS of WESTMINSTER. Valli DIRECTORS. It tighanßarnewall, Lsq. 'Thomas Huxley, Esq. Henry John Beare, Esq. Colonel Jourdain Joseph Bennett, Esq. Henry M. Kemsheai, Esq ALJor Wm. Bird Bleamire. Taverner John Miller, Esq. Jos. Blunt, sen., Esq. Sir Harris Nicholas,K. C. M. G. R. Edwards Broughton, Esq. Captain Rattray, R.N. Dav:d Caldwell, Esq. P. Salomons, F.sq. Y. Chas. Moreton-Dyer, Esq. Admiral Shippard William Ewart , Esq. Pearson Thomson, Esq. Jolin Welstead,' Esq., F.R.S. David Salomons, Esq. TRUSTEES. Sir Harris Nicolas, K. C.M.G. Taverner John Miller, Esq. _ _ - AUDITORS. Sydney S. Bell, Esq. Frederick W. Caldwell, Esq. George Robinson, Esq. PHYSICIANS. A. Todd Thompson, M.D. F. L. S., 3, Hinde-stree', Man chester-square. Robert Willis, M.D., 25, Dover-street. SISILGEONS. Arthur Cooke, Esq., Holles-street, Cavendish-square. Joseph Freeman, Esq., Spring-gardens. STANDING COUNSEL. William Fraser, Esq., 10, King's Bench Walk, Temple. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Roy, Bl un t, D uncan , an d J o h nson , 42, L o thbury. Messrs. G. and C. Kempson, 31, Abingdon-street,Westminster. BANKERS. The London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury and Waterloo- place, and its branches. „The LONDON and WESTMINSTER MUTUAL LIFE `SURANCE SOCIETY will assure for the Whole Life, or for a Limited Term, any suns from 201. to 5,0001., on a Single Life, Joint Lives, or Survivorships. It will grant Im mediate, Temporary, Deferred, and Contingent Annuities; it will purchase Reversionary and other Interests; it will grant en dowments to Children; and also advance Loans upon Policies 9 1 ; u Pon good Personal Security, after the manner of Scotch ks. see advantages which this Society holds out are shortly th:— • The principl e u p on w hi c h it i s f oun d e d, viz. Mutual As .„ r ance, draws a di s ti nc t a nd b r oad line between it and all r)prietary Companies. , 1 Society not only embodies all the new features of Mo- Fejn Proprietary Companies , hat also preserves the character ;es of Mutual Assurance Societies, the success of which in `lt'Putably proves the excellence of their principle. T . 4 addition to this, several convenient and novel modes of 'de Assurance and Deferred Annuities are offered in such a way t 0 enable the humbler classes to secure every advantage which 18;otefe Assurance has hitherto held out to the affluent, or Benefit e leties and Savi n g s B an ks to the humbler classes, free from exclusi veness of the former , arid the many obvious defects of me latt er. A Temporary Capital Stock of 500,000/. will be raised to guarantee i ?arantee the immediate engagements of Ihe Society, in 20,000 •es of 25!. each, bearing interest at 5/. per Cent. per an "um, which subscribed capital will be repai.i to the Sharehold ers 50 soon as the Directors shall consider the income and , c curoulated f un d o f t h e S oc i e; y are o f suc h amoun t as t o c,n_der its c on ti nuance unnecessary . O NE - FIFT Hof the divi 71e profits of the S oc i e ty will be set aside and distributed as a Sla s to the Shareholders whey. ever the Subscribed Capital is co ntinued. An i ns t a l m ent of 2/. per Share to be paid on übsc l ip t i on. by Prospectuses may be had, and application for Shares made, ._,aPPlying to the London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury, and Waterloo-place, and at all its Branches : and to Messrs. A°Y, Blunt, Duncan, and Johnston, 42, Lotbhury ; and Messrs. a nd . C. Kempson, Solictors, 31, Abingdon-street, West- inster FRANCIS EWART, Secretar, THORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. HREE EXHIBITIONS will take place r „ at Saturdays, or the Society at Turnham Green on the friFellows 41,0 wing namely—May 18, Juno 15, July 6. may obtain IS tickets each, for the admission of their o .,ends, at thi s office, price 3s. 6d. each, on or before April 'it', and any Number price ss. each after that dm. All tickets issued at the Garden will be charged 10s. each. Regent Street OFFIC E of the GAS-LIGHT and COKE COMPANY. 19, New Bridges-street, Blackfriars. London, Feb. 11, 1839. rt,N_otice is hereby given, That the COURT of DI -u,k;TORS of the GAS-LIGHT and COKE COMPANY, hereby declare that a Vacancy has occurred in the Court of Esrcieetors, by the resignation of Archibald Frederick Paxton, _ Notice i s hereby also given, That a SPECIAL GENE RAL COURT of the PROPRIETORS of this COM- A A NY will be Meld at this Office, on FRIDAY, the 22d of March next, at Eleven e'Clock in the Forenoon, for the fz. r LE CTION of a DIRECTOR t o supp l y th e V acanc y i n th e V a l x e t c o t n ir E, osi. cca:ioned by th e R es i gna ti on o f A rc hib a ld Frederick and that, should a Ballot be required, it will continue open for four hours from its commencement. By Order of the Court of Directors, CHARLES BURLS, Secretary. N.B. Th e Chair will be taken at Twelve o'Clock precisely , and none but Proprietors admitted. OFFICE of THE GAS-LIGHT and COKE COMPANY, 19 NEW BRIDGE-STREET, BLAC KFRIARS, LONDON, MARCH 9, 1839. I do hereby • Notice, that, pursuant to the Eighth T give Y - Lavi of this Company, WILLIAM ALLEN, Esquire, "e of the Auditors of this Company has given me notice in r il l of his intention to stand for the Office of a Dl cc!C O, to supply the Vacancy, which has occurred in the urt of Directors, by the Resignation of Archibald Frederic triteton, Esquire, at the Election, which will take place at this u% on FRIDAY, the 22d instant. By Order, CHARLES BURLS, Secretary, HRITISH and FOREIGN SCHOOL At MEETING SOCIETY. Rd '''EETING of the COMMITTEE of the BRITISH ,-; F OREIGN SCHOOL SOCIETY, held at the Society's use, Borough-ro a d, MAJtcx 8, 1839, Thatas Resol ve d unanimously, re this Committee having read with much surprise and r t _gret, certain statements reported to have been made by the rn'a7. Francis Close, of Cheltenham, at a meeting held in Free oth!!fis' Tavern, on the 9th of February last, and reiterated by v." (which statements are calculated to inflict deep and last- Cg injury upon the British and Foreign School Society), feel ? t uld positively to deny their truth. For a full refutation of t O e u rrne, they refer the public to a Tract, entitled e" A Reply e M isrepresentations of the Rev. Francis Close and others, 'wool principles and actice of the British and Foreign Society," just publi shed by Ward and Co., Paternoster •o9,. (signed) WILLIAM ALLEN, Chairman SMAII between BRISTOL and NEW YORK. 1‘ HE GREAT WESTERN, t „„ , Lieut. JAMES HOSKEN, R.N., Commander, is in -I,'"ul.ci to Sail from BRISTOL for NEW YORK, on SATtra s4 the 23d instant, on which day Steamers tis convey Pas sers on board will leave Cumberland Basin at Ten, A.m. as olio w during the r emainder of the Year she is intended to Sail s:— From Ilristbl. 18th May 6th July 24th August 19th October From New York. 20th April 13th June Ist August 21st Septembei • 16th November. Fares to New York, 40 and 25 Guineas. p 'lll experienced Surgeon is attached to the Ship. inforaiation, and to secure State Rooms, apply to Mr. L0 . , 1 P Ward. Great Western Railway O ffi ce, Prince's-street, - ""°n Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Ce., Liverpool Messrs. iiatulton, Brothers and Co., Glasgow ; Mr. V. Davidson, pa re ; Messrs. Andelle and Sousar, Paris; and of Christ°. passengers at the Company's Office, Bristol. p l . are particularly requested te have the word 1a,, e ;" , " in large letters, written on such portions of the ir tot V' "' as are a c t requ i re d i n their State Rooms, and to take eerl,cethat Freight will be charged, at ss. per foot, fur all ex- L uCgage beyond 15 cube feet, for whick arrangements nt, t been made beforehand ; also that Dogs will not be all? Re d oo b oard. 1, 5 W Fre.'ght of Measurement Goods pet' Ton, which will to bet in New York • at the rate of 4 Dollars 80 Cents. th e Ponad Sterling. ,N 0 Second Class or Steerage Passengers taken. Frei Parcels can be received after the 22d instant. elnt engaged to be in Bristol on Monday, the 18th inst. - ---22' t ° 1 , March I, 1839. IST 54 , ALBEMARLE-STREET, PICCADILLY. 'UHT and HEARING. TESTIMO .II ,„,__,NIALs on the Messrs. S. and B. SOLOMONS' newly 1 - 11'-'- ''' hPECTACLE LENSES and VOICE CONDUCTOR for e' Persons. Prima James Blundell, Esq , M.D. : ie: I have now tried for some time the Messrs. Solomens' newly e „;e l 2t•ed Spectzcle Lense• , and have experiences much benefit ;. they v., rat preferable I t o ° m than any other Lens ; the relief is lei,/ tre a t, 117 particular by candle light, and in course of use for . a ,_ , th nf ~.. 2 y Y d i , -- ,s,_t` e n.....e,th . : clearness l e l t the a transparency brings every object ' svir on o a ; 6 t' y can be fu y ppreciated only by those who, like tend in need of them. n Ico. " JAMES BLUNDELL, M.D. ,`, I A I, Great George-street, Westminster.. . t . s. g 0 ,....._-- , T..ers,gn, ..., 44 s !e ' th e " a ' .,1 hve been for some time making Ilse . of e n e ' et they u a ; Spectacle Lenses ; the . astemshing t , o eigs ~,,erY ether kind of Lei v i.." —t . 11, , to every ether gives them the decided prefer ,,...st e i i h , j_nbieet very distinct, an .he clearness of the transparency 4 enables individuals to view the 174 1 nt br e P a article . with perfect ac: ur .." candle light, as they appeal y. They are particularly cooling to the sight, and l e , ll br gh t Blundell, M.D..1. Great i , rg esttre and brilliant light.—Dr. James ~„ s urgeon .t I New -I,sg, en.„.._eeti Westminster ; John Hooper, Es, '4 24, Dover - street; h ':. , r a ,, Kennington ;Sigmond, XD., -,,. F . H. Rams_ j;'thazu iraotham, XD., Broad-street -buildings ; L. M .. - 0.. 26, Har str°ll..%4", New Broad.street ; Dr. H..Colburu, . 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EaL .4.it o Ais . uen , tret. 7.1 to ~...,1 .. ee of the gross imposition in the Country it Si neees ..._eshinsat7le that no Travellers are employed by the above Estab- niri n ," Sernp.er nocuit differsaratis."—Lu . cA W. E RE Is perhaps n o situation i n life so full selves _ 4f e mbarrassment as when the over-sensitivt feel them h,„___,.FsrripMled to reveal their moral • ateZaZtintie, to ethers. Day after day does the h'orrot of exposare indiscretions, or their physical ' , lent, t at e in the morbid imag nation, while increasing disease aug ,ilale of t o sUffbriog of the body and the irritability of the mind. sFr) . - ' ° nr pra t . anguish thus protracted, we have adopted a system which Preo ui F e wmal ex perieiate ions proved te be highly successful, and which those wt, 4 the absolute necessity of personal communication _with ap,,,,, t...e recoil from such mode of consultation. 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Satisfied of your un willingness to lose me, and of your condemnation of the proceedings of my adversaries, I resolved that any de monstration which you might give of your opinions should not ,arise, either in whole or in part, from any instigation of mine ; and I therefore determined, however cold-hearted it might appear, to wait till my successors in the College and Hospital had ample time to settle comfortably, if this were possible,. in their new situations and I may here state that it is perfectly 'untrue thet I have had a party of students at my house any time this session. The matter of the fees I found would sooner or later require a communication from me, since the Council took no notice of the wish expressed in my letter of resignation that my share of the fees of this season should be re turned to those who desired it, and as those students who applied for the fulfilment of my Wish were. refused, I waited, therefore, on this account also. I haVe, at length, received a letter from the Secretary of the Col lege, stating that the Council can he no party to the re turn of fees to the students, and offering me half the Professor's portiotk of the fees paid up to Christmas. ...Since there was ntieprospect of my fees being returned to you, unless I first received them, I have received the portion offered, in order to transmit it to you. From the moment of becoming a teacher in the school I acted on the principle that it' was instituted for the dissemination and discovery of truth. I considered my self bound to learn what was the truth on every point of the subjects which I L.uglit, and to promulgate it ; and my office at the hospital I considered myself bnun:i to make a constant field of careful inquiry. I had no idea of any other success for the school than the success of imparting knowledge : and for this I laboured indefa tigably and disinterestedly. I lowered my perpetual fee from 91. to 71., and my sessional, from 61. to 51.; and it was not till after thus losing a considerable sum during a few years, and finding that the other Profes- Cots, though they had cheerfully assented to the reduc tion of my fees, would never fellow my example, that 1 gradually brought them up to their original amount, so that my successor might receive the office unimpaired. I gave clinical lectures regnlarly once week, and, during one summer, three times a week ; I gave them, consequently, in fir greater numbers than my col !e,lgueg.. I lectured upon all my cases, detailing every ng faithfuly ; never .fabricating histories, treatment, or results ; never giving occasion for an editor to dis continue the publication of them on account of letters incessantly arriving to say they were made up and at variance with the facts ; never declaring that an organic disease was cured, when it was in the same state as at the patient's admission, nor assuring the world that it was put down in the book as relieved only when it was ac tually put down as cured. I endeavoured to act in the kindest manner by every student, and was r.:ways ready to communicate what information I pOssessed, and to perform the. part of a friend. My hSppiness in the Institution weis unalloyed till an unhappy spirit. gained - admittance ; and • from that time there ha s , been no more peace than there had been in tin p lace where he formerly sojourned. Totally an ts provoked, nay, receiving invariable civility from toes and actuated, as far as I can judge, by envy only, he eery soon spoke behind my back so inaccurately • and injuriously, according to the firm assertion of note-takers, that he was compelled partly to deny his words and partly to apologise in public. A few ill conditioned young men will always exist among your numbers, but such *ere unable to become conspicuous before his arrival. Him they found a rallying point ; and the conduct of nearly every one connected with him I have seen reason deeply to deplore and have found hostile to myself; even of those to whom I had shown nothing 'but the greatest attentions. However, I quietly Continued my course of industry and duty, At length, in 1837, my attention became directed to a subject which, though utterly neglected in this country, was receiving great attention on the Continent. Certain wonderful phenomena, and certain modes of producing these phenomena, and of curing diseases ill-understood and difficult to cure, were vouched for by men of the highest information and the soundest judgment ; and I felt it my duty to investigate the matter. I soon found that there was a fund of truth in what I bad heard and read,—that an agent or agency existed which lead been overlooked ; and my inquiries w.,.r.e.„&von• attended with such results that a large number of medical men,most dis t noblemen, nay, royalty itself, members of the Howe of Commons, some of the. fir4nn, of science in the country, Professors of Oxford,. Cambridge, - KiiigTh College, and Edinburgli,the Presidents of the Royal and Linnman Societies, and Teachers of the various Hospi tals, flocked to witness my facts. Some of these gentle men made handsome donations to the hospital in conse qaence, and others 'expressed their intention to do the same,but have declined in consequence or resignation. This soon excited envy, and this excited a commotion ; and the late Dean advised [lid to desist. He urged that, whet her the wonderful facts were true or not, and whether great benefit in the treatment of diseases would result or not, we ought to consider the interests of the school —not of science and humanity, observe— but of the school : that, if the public did not regard the matter as tree and the benefits as real, we ought not not to perse vere and risk the loss of public favour to the school ; that I was rich, and could afford to lose my practice for • what I believed that the truth, but others werelnot :—in short, his argument was " rem-rem ;"and " virlus post nummos." I replied that the Institution was established tor the dissemination and discovery of truth ; that all other considerations *ere secondary to this ; that, if the public were ignorant, we should enlighten them; that we should lead the public, and not the public us ; and that the sole question was, whether the matter were a truth or not. I laughed at the idea of injury to the pecuniary interests of the school. The commotion increased.' My demonstrations were debated upon at meetings of the Faculty, and discus sions went on between members of the Council, and Professors, an exquisite Secretary, and other more humble holders of office. At one meeting of the medi cal faculty, a Professor boasted that he had seen none of my experiments and should have considered himself disgraced if he had ; that animal magnetism had been proved above forty years ago to he a perfect humbug and imposture ; and that it was now in as bad repute with the public as Christianity bad been at its first protnul gation. Another Professor boasted that he had seen none of the facts, and, though invited by my clinical clerk to observe them while visiting his own patients in the ward, that lie had declined the invitation. One Professor declared that he never could procure a vacant bed because I detained my patients so long in order to Mesmerise them : and another rep orted that patients w ould not apply for admission , lest the y should be Mesmerised, and that others left the Hospital to avoid Mesmeric treatment. But when I inquired of the offi cer whom I understood to have furnished these absurdi ties, he assured me that he was blameless and made the general scope-goat of the place ; and he entreated me to accept Ins denial without an inquiry which would embroil him with the Professors. Not conceiving that anything, but reputation could accrue to the Hospital from the demonstration of physiological and pathologi cal facts to crowds of the first men in the country , among whom were chara cters totall y o pp o sed in politics to the place, and who otherwise never would hav e entered it, I persevered. The President of the Colle g e— Lord Brougham, and five oilier members of th e C ounc il d i d o t attend Facultyt ed of emonstrations ; nor did th e Professors ;nor Dr. G ran t, D r. Lindley, nor M r. Graham. But, with the exce p ti on of these three last gentlemen, whose condu c t t h roughout has commanded my resp ect, I never saw any of the me nt refuse ofto dical faculty : if any ever were present, it cou ld h ave been only to reconnoitre unobserved by me. The Irish, the Welsh, and four of the six Scotch medical Professors, held meet i ng after meeting of the faculty Hospital C o mmittee, which my or of the disgust prevented me from a ttending._ A t these meet i ngs I know that the m ost bitter feelings against me were Manifested and m atters discussed which were per fectly irrelevant, but the introduction of which showed the hostility of certain parties. I have always acted in the most honourable and correct manner ; and dare any examination of my conduct. I had, however, given great offence, by urging with the Senate of the London University, the hardship and inutility of compelling at tendance upon particular courses of le ctures, and espe cial:y upon lectures on morbid anatomy because the morbid anatomy of a disease i s as much a part of the disease, and as much to be explained at length in lectures on the practice of medicine, surgery, and mid wifery, as the symptoms and history ; and, indeed, can not be taught with advantage separately from the symp toms. Distinct lectures on morbid anatomy must be vuperfluous, if professors of the practice of medicine, surgery, and midwifery perform their duty : and the London University has at last yielded to the opinion 1 defended. I found that I also Lad given great offence by declaring in public that tie College was founded, not for the Professors, but for the diffusion of know ledge, and that the fees of the Professors were but a secondary consideration, and established solely to induce them to diffuse knowledge. Among the pueritities talked by the Professors, both at these meetings and out of them, it was predicted that the number of medical students would be seriously re duced the ensuing winter, that not one would come from Bristol, and that I should have scarcely any class at all. At length Dr. Lindley and Mr. Cooper waited upon me in the name of the Medical Committee of the Hos ?ital. They brought %he fol:owing acknowledgment of my right to practise Mesmerism in the Hospital : " Resolved—That the (Medical) Committee fully recognize Dr. Elhotson's undoubted right to employ. Animal Magnetism as a remedial agent in the wards of the Hospital, when he considers it necessary to do so. But thnt the Committee are anxious to know whether Dr. Ellintson has been 'correctly understood as not in tending to continue in the Hospital the exhibition of the experimrnts on thet subject."' Dr. Lindley and Mr. Cooper confessed to tee that they could not imagine that my demonstrations would hurt the hospital ; and Dr. Lindley, in his own noble and honest manner, declared that be thought the facts which he had witnessed were very curious and deserved inves tigation. The feeling, however, fer what reason they could not tell, was so strong, that they conceived my best court' was to give up the demonstrations. Mr. Coo per suggested, us indeed Dr. Davis had done,that Ishould show the patients in my own house, or some house. in the neighbourhood. One Professor recommended a pub lic-house. But I declined to exhibit hospital patients to a number of persons any where but in the-hospital. For the sake of peace, therefore, I consented never to show the phenomena again in the theatre of the Hospital, un less my colleagues approse&A of the list of those to whom I wished to demonstrate them : and both gentlemen agreed that this 6 - tight to content the party. It, how ever did not content them. They still refused to conic and examine into the phenomena ; and when I sent to the Medical Committee a list of many of the highest names in and out of the profession, who had applied for permission to witness my facts, they absolutely refused to read it. The following are the words of the official answer of the Secretary : " July 5. 1838. " Your letter, addressed to the Medieal Conunitte:" yesterday, was forthwith laid before the meeting spec•i ally summoned for its consideration. The Committee determined not to read the list of names app.7nl7d thereto." . I had proposed that a Committee should be formed to investigate my observations. It was to consist of gentle men from different schools, and I requested Drs. Grant, Lindley ; and Sharper, and Mr. Graham, to be upon it. Mr. Graham declined on the score of his great miage ments, but Drs. Grant and Lindley cons‘mted. Frem Dr. Sharpe) , I received the following letter : " 68, Torrington-square, " Monday Morning, 14th May. "MY DEAR SIR,—I was all yesterday in the country, and arrived in town at a very late hour, otherwise I would. have sooner replied to your note. " From what I have read and seen of the so-called Mesmeric Phenomena, I am convinced that some of these phenomena really are what they seem to be, and possess a very high degree of physiological interest ; moreover, I know that there are other effects supposed to be produced by Mesmeric operation, of aumeh more extraordinary ch t racter, the reality of which, though I frankly own I do not believe in it, is admitted by physicians of intelligence and experience, and which, on that. account, are enti tled to a fair examination. These being my sentiments, which I have never hesitated to express, you can not suppose me indifferent to the subject, or disposed to treat with neglect or disregard your experiments in the Hospital, but I have refrained from participatiog in Or witnessing these experiments for two reasons. First, from what I have heard of these exhibitions (I use the word respectfully), I am inclined to think that, however different may be your intention, they are c deulated rather to minister to the popular love of the marvellous than to afford an advantageous opportunity of testing the reality cif the effects produced as the alleged efficacy of Mesmerism as a remedial agent ; and secondly, in the present state of opinion among the public and the profesican, respecting animal magnetism, the frequent repetition of such exhibitions in the Hospital has ap peared to me not altogether judicious. " OfeourseJ am far from finding fault with you for en tertaining different opinions, but as these exhibitions stil continue, and my own sentiments regarding theta rem :in unaltered, I trust you will pardon me for declining your invitation, however flattering it may be, as I vvish to avoid connecting myself, even indirectly, with proceed ings which seem to me objectionable. " I am,'my dear Sir. Very truly your's, Dr. Elliotsnn, &c. &c." "W. SHARPEY." Ttie public exhibitions, however, as they were termed, were discontinued ; but Dr. Sharper still never thought proper to witneso the facts, which it surely was his as a teacirr of phyFiology, to go. and witness, that he might treat the subject properly in his lectures. En treated on - all sides to exhibit the phenomena, I requested eho Council permission to demonstrate them in one of the theatres of the College, when this was not in use. But - f - trzerrritt' ed. , One thy. Council, whose goodness and liberality render him an ornament to the Jewish nation and to England, moved the reconsideration of the refusal or made a motion for permission,but in vain. I hear that he entreated the Council to witness the phenomena and judge for themselves as he had done, but in vain. Yes, the majority of the Council, perfectly ignorant of the subject, refused to go to learn anything of it before they passed judgment upon it ; and among these were legis lators, barristers, and one physician. Yet this same Council gave permission for the exhibition of a boy with a strong memory, to the public, at so much a head, and tickets were purchased by any one as for a concert.* I persevered in the daily study of the subject, clerking the most exquisite intellectual pleasure that I had -ever experienced. In an evil hour, I consented to show some experiments to the Editor of the " Lancet," after repeated entreaties conveyed by his assistant., Mr. Mi:ls, who had witnessed the phenomena at the hospital, re ported many in the " Lancet," been enraptured with them, and declared them over and over again to be so satisfactory that to doubt or to suspect the two Okeys of imposition kyoull be the height of absurdity. I ex hibited to the Editor the production of the singular deli. tium, and a variety of the most beautiful and satisfactory experiments, which he has entirely suppressed. But 1 presently feared what would be the result. He said he was pestered with letters upon the subject ; but that nineteen out of twenty were unfavourable. Nineteen persons, of course, purchase more " Lancets" than one ; and I fancied I already saw his rejection of the evidence. The mental phenomena were such as no person capable of sound and refined observation, and fitted for philosophical investigation, could for an instant have imagined to be feigned. The physical phenomena with the hand, the eye, metals, and water, were as striking and conclusive, with the exception of -some with lead and nickel ; and those I have since proved to large numbers of able judges to be equally conclusive. Mesmerised nickel produces upon the elder sister the most violent effects, which none but a very ignorant person could con sider pretended. Now, when this, or gold or silver, has been rubbed upon a part and the friction has been desisted from before the effects come, or the effects have come and have ceased, they may be at once excited in the former case, or re-excited in the latter, by fric tion of the part with anyth:ng—a piece of woo I or a piece of lead ; and this excitement may be produce' again and again. Friction was performed with lead upon parts to which nickel had been applied either with or without effect, as it might be, and the effects took place violently. This explanation I gave to the Editor, but he was either too dull to understand, or had his reasons for not understanding. In another set of experiments lead produced effects, though nickel had not been applied to the parts ; and yet I never had been able to Mesmerise lead by holding it in my hand and to produce effects by then applying it. Those effects I candidly said I could not explain, since I had not commenced experiments .with lead or nickel for more than two or three days : but, as there was no more deception in the cases, nor less certainty of the various facts which I had observed, than in chemistry or any other natural science, I added that these results showed only that they required farther investigation, and that I had no doubt I should, by per severance, discover their cause. The Editor knew that I was about to leave London that same day for an ab ience of six weeks on the Continent, and yet be could not wait for my return and give me an opportunity of farther research, but, with that gentlemanly delicacy for which he and his friends are so remarkable, published, almost immediately, what professed to be an account of what he had seen,—a most imperfect and worthless account, however ; in his plenitude of scientific im portance, he declared that not one more experiment on magnetism would ever 1)0 required ; and answers which were sent he never published. He omitted to state a circumstance in his experiments with lead, whiLli had never been allowed to happen in mine, hut which when reflecting upon them on my tour, I thought might have influenced the results. In employing, the lead, I had noticed that he applied it against a piece of nickel held in his other hand, before lie ap plied it to the patient. On my return, 1 applied lead to her as before, and, indeed, copper also ; yet never ob tained an effect. I dun applied the lead or the copper, ss it might he, against a piece of Mesmerized nickel or gold, before applying i t to her ; and its application to her • Ticket of Admission to the Exhibition of the Calculating Powers of the Sicilian Boy, Mangiamele! in the Theatre of the University College, On Monday, August 13th, 1838. Admission lOs ' was then always productive of effects. I discovered that the surface of the lead or copper had become nickelized or aurified by the contact ; and thus the difficulty was solved. These experiments I have repeated again and again before numbers of gentlemen, taking the greatest care that the patient should not know when I applied - leaf; or copper which had not been in contact with nickel or gold, and when I applied lead or copper which, had been in contact, with either of them ; and the results have been uniform. I was obliged to leave the poor little girl in an intense coma, with occasional violent tetanic spasms, at the Editor's house, little imagining that any farther experiments would be attempted, especially i:t my absense, by a person ignorant of the subject and altogether incapable of making experiments. I had seen sufficient of the extrema carelessness, and want of in formation and philosophic pow, r, of the Editor, during the experiments conducted by myself, and which he fre quently altogether deranged, not to be convinced that i❑ my ab3ence no experiment could be made in a manner to justify conclusions. In his ignorance, he acted as though Mesmeric susceptibility is always present and always the same ; whereas the reverse is the fact ; and experiments with water and metals , frequently repeated so der tnge the susceptibility that we are often obliged to desist. Darin.. the five months which have elapsed since my rather), I ' have repeated all my experiments and Con tinued my observations, not only on the Okeys, but an other patients ; and all the results of my former in quiries have, been confirmed and ail difficulties solved. For nearly two months I cowinued my inquiry into Elizabeth Okey's'ease in the Hospital. She and her sister had been both entirely cured of their epilepsy by Mesmerism, actor all other remedies had failed ; but she was suffering in October from an egonizing pain in her leins and frequent ischuria ; and I therefore re admitted her, afier an absence of neatiaetwo months. I did not ateempt to remove These symptoms by Meta merisen, kit frequently threw her into a mesmeric state, partly for the purpose of ascertaining facts, and partly because in it her sufferings were less. I admitted three lads with epilepsy, and a man with paroxysms of ;mbeeility, whom all four I treated with Mesmerism and it only : my c li n i ca l c l er k s sat b e f ore eac h, wacong their hands, - for half an hour daily : the immediate result was drowsiness, or sleep, and tha ultimate great alleviation of the diseases and every proTect of cure. my great astonishment I received a summons to attend the House Committee of th e Hospital, on coconut - of a Mr. Cope, a clerk, I believe, in some public office and one of the Committee, basing directed attention to the fact, that Elizabeth Okey, after basing been sixteen months in the Hospital, ..and d,seharged in August, had beeme.admitted in Oc tober. Dr. Thomson had a patient at the very time who had been fourteen months in the Hospital, and has now been theta nearly seventeen ; and yet no ne tiff! was taken of this. I - explained that the little gill was now in the house for another complaint, and presumed that, if a . patient, who bad been an inmate of the hospital far several months on accel:nt of a broken leg, were to break his arm the very day after his discharge, he would be re-admissible : and to this the Chairman assented. 1 was then ques tioned inspecting Elizabeth Okes's power of predicting • death. Now, you are aware, gerolemen, that some per sons have an idiosyncrasy to be-affected by emanations which have n perc,Fibla efiett on mankind. at large. Some bare catarrh and asthma when near certain grasses in flower :•some, when near a hare, dead or alive : some have an indesetibable sensation of a most distress ing kind when near a cat. ElizabAli Okey has a sense of great oppression, sickness, and misery, when within a certain distance of persons whose frame is sinking. The emanations _which are constantly proceeding - from us all are so altered in their composition, I presume, in extreme -debility, that a high susceptibility may suffer 'fr.,ni them. Whenever the effect nein her has been of a certain intensitx, I under Stand that the patient who produced it has died. The phenomenon had been known to the nurse, add invariably verified by her for a ioeg period bete re I hear;! of it ; and Eliza bet h Okey only by chance communicated-it to we in No:ember during her delirium. When not ia a Mes:neric state, that is, when not delirious nor somnambulist, she lies not this i iissenuracy, and is p rfectly ignorant that she ever has In her somnambulism: she has it sitni4 ; but, in her delirium, it is attended by an illusion that she sees - a figure, something like the representations of death, wrapped in a. white robe. The more intense the op , psessian from the emanations, the taller the figure ; the stronger, ththeihre, are the emanations, and the nearer the person to his end. Ttiia is perfectly in ac cordance with the phenomena of dreams, which are sort of- delirium. If s have an inflammation of the toot,. tat: Lent of this is very likely, in our dreams, to make us f a ncy the part is roast/o i l: on the bars of,a graxc_; •irive litre the rheumatism, we atay dream tfa;tt. sonic c.::e is ;:vin,-; us 'tic bastinacie ; ia oaression of the breath, we may dream that we sec a demon sitting upon us—in short, have the night mare, nod it is very conceivable that, the more dis tressing the oppression, the larger might the figure be imagined. Thus, the sensation, which she knows to arise from the influence of a person hurrying to the grave, gives her a fancy that she sees the figure, when in her delirium ; but, if she is near a sinking person when in a state of somnambulism, in which her reason .s sound, she not only has the sensation eiserel)—sees no figure, but tells you that the idea of tire figure in her delirium, is a delusion—the product of deliriuin. On learning this wonderful fact, I examined carefully into it and ascertained its reality. But having had, among a few of the students who have signalized themselves, some by scribbling and some by talking, experience of the falsehoods and absurd objections to which all the Mesmeric phenomena of my patients were exposed, I resolved to conduct her into my other ward, in which he was unacquainted with the diseases of the patients and with the patients themselves, and to conduct her there at the close of the day when she could not see the p &ems. Ace rdicgly, about five o'clock, in De cember, I y begged the nurse of the ward to accompany us. I enjoined the little girl not to utter a word, and -I led her, not to the bedside of' patients, but up one side of the ward and down the other. without stopping ; arid no one knew the object I had in view. I felt her shud der as she passed the foot of two beds ; and, after leaving the ward, she told me that she had felt the sensation, and seen the figure, which she in her delirium, but in her delirium only, calls Jack, at two of the beds. The nurse informs me that, in passing one bed, she heard her whisper, " there's Jack," while she shuddered : but I did not, although I had hold of her hand the whole time. This _patient, who was then in a state of perfect insensibility, soon died ; the other, I hear, is still alive, but his disease will be, from its nature, ne cessarily fatal. I considered it my duty to inquire into this interesting fact. There was nothing in it contrary to established physiological and pathological truths ; but it was an unusual modification ; and bad I not en .quired into it, I should have been devoid of all spirit of professional inquiry, and, moreover, should have ex posed the innocent and excellent little girl to another false and base accusation of imposture. But how did the House Committee act? They detained me the last part of an hour, waiting about the building, while they examined different nurses, as to whe ther I had ever led Elizabeth Okey into the wards to predict the death of patients ; and then they sent for me : instead of treating me as a professor; as senior physician, as a gentleman, as a honourable person, and making their inquiries of me in the first inftance. I did not notice this ;but the expla nations, which I have now given, I gave then, and the Committee seemed satisfied. The subject, which is one of the highest philosophical interest, has been disgrace• fully misrepresented. I have been said to employ Eliza beth Okey to prophecy : and one student, whose con dust towards me, in return for invariable kindness, has covered him with lasting shame before all good men, and causes him to be the laughing-stock in private of those to whom he I:as been weak enough to become a tool, shamelessly declared in public that I had led Elizabeth Okey to the bedside of patients to prophecy their death, and that afterwards, of course, they died. I ought to add that I mentioned the idiosyncracy of Elizabeth Okey to no one in the Hospital but Mr. Wood : not to my clinical clerks, nor to the apothecary ; who, however, I find, bad surmised it from something I had said to him in private, and had gossiped about it as he went about giving his characteristic opinion, that the professors were justified in preferring their p.:euniary interests to the considera tion of the truth and remedial powers of Mesmerism. The Committ e appeared satisfied, and I was assured that my explaeations had made a great impression. AU went on. comfortably, as far as I knew. My four male patents who were Mesmerised, improved rapidly. The man's fits of imbecility had ceased, and he thought of leaving, full of gratitude for his cure. Two of the boys bad experieno.d no fit for above two months ; and the frequency of the fits of the other boy bad diminished, when, on December :27, I received a resolution of coun cil, from the Hospital Committee— .' That they be instructed to take steps, forthwith, for the diseharge of El.zabeth Oksy a f p 'r e o r m t t o he t Zo i t t h a e l. c " ary, I immediately showed the p who said that be had known of the resolution seve ral days before, es well as of another, which I had not yet received from the House Committee, viz., tha' the practice of Mesmerism should be immediately discontinued. I proceeded to the house of the Trea surer of the College and Hospital, and he informed me that the second resolution bad also been passed. I , therefore, at once wrote t h e following letter to the Secretary of the Council " Snt—l have just received information, that the Conn( il, without any interview or communication with me, has ordered my patient, Elizabeth Okey, to be instantly EVENING EDITIOI'.7 discharged, and forbidden me to cure my patients wi Mesmerism. I only am the proper person to judges when my patients are in a fit state to be discharged, and what treatment is proper for their cases. . - " As a gentleman, in the . first place,and as a physic: ~n in the next, I feel myself cOmpelled at once to resigil my office of Professor of the principles and prac:icc of medicine, and of clinical medicine in the college, and Physician to the Hospital ; and hereby resign then and shall never enter either building again. " When I was made Professor, I received a class of 90 —the class is now 197-13 more than at Christmas last year; and, as there were 24 entries after Christmas then, the whole number of the present ses•tion would, no doubt, have been above 220. _ "I' have not received my fees this session. It is my wish that they be all refunded to _th , t young gentlemen, who are perfectly welcome to th, lectures which I have already delivered. " I have the honour, &c. "JOHN ELLIOTSON. " Conduit-street, 27th December, 1838." You will agree with me; gentlemen, that to hold office one moment on such terms, and under men car.- ble of acting in a manner at once insultit.g and irra tional, would have been impossible. If I was unfit to determine when my patients were in a state to be dis charged, and how they were to be treated, I ought t. , ) have been dismissed. But, while I held office, I was to be considered fit to judge of these points. Had mv colleagues in the Hospital possessed a becoming spir t, and felt what was due to themselves and the prof , -ssion, they would have resisted this infringement of their gene ral rights, whatever their opinion of Mesmerism, even if they had attended to it sufficiently to justify an. opi nion. Indeed they were bound to act thus, since they had resolved months before in committee, that they acknow ledged " my,undoubted right " to practice Mesmerism in she Hospital. But this I could hardly expect, since they were su forgetful of academic propriety, that, in their lectures one designated my patient ()key "as impostor," and another, the bosom - friend of the - editor of "The Lancet," called Mesmerism " the most impul:nt of modern humbugs," and indeed pronounced me to the students, in a public room of the Hospital, to be a tom-fool." The insult was the greater, as I was senior physician, was thought to have greatly raised the reputat , on and numbers of the school, and had been the mai❑ cause of the establishment of the pita!, although I gave great offence at the time to some of the Professors for honestly pointing out that the. Medical School was inefficient without an Hospital The conduct of the Council was irrational, since the majority refused to witness the experiments upon a subject of which they were utterly ignorant, and t o h ave an interview with me for the purpose of inquiring into the business. They suspended a practice which was perfectly innocent, simple, and devoid of expense, and had worked, and was working many most remarkable cures, even in eases which had resisted all other trat merit and had been sent out of other hospitals as i n a rable, nhict, they well knew. The College was thriving this winter as much as last ; my class was larger than ever it had been at this period of the season ; and tha fluTital was eroweel with patients aad pupds. The Council, co.riptetely unknown in . science or literature. as they alt are, with two or three exceptions, pr tininselves totally unlit to conduct a place of eciunatar, and more espcc;ally one which I) , )asied to be foui2E-0. an the most rib, rai princip!es and to he free fuirii the prejudices o► old Universities. They put a blot ti , cic imAitution which will never be erased. I am hi; py to say that, though two of the nit,=t and ohLtinate were men, I hear, from wham being a great legislatorial medical refai mei-, and ta , -, other a physician, better things io have been ex pected. the noble President, Lord Brougham, does not : . . .. . lictitate m soeivty strongly to condemn their preeecd ings.. And well he may. Meirnerism is riot only true and of the itighes . ; interest in a psychelog cu, phys o logieal, and curittive point of slew, but. is now proco.cd!:.g at a very rapid ride. Most intere.sting• Engti li works upca it, especially one by a clergyman named Townsend, v', 11l Moan be published. Hundreds of able men have 1,.;,...., converted to a conviction of its truth within theite tveeks, and a large number of medical men now Dot J ri Inlieve, but practise it. I have lately met witi, shown to the profession - wonderful cases and cures.; . !,.c other gentic►;►en are equally.sueccssful.. The sum sent to me by the Cuuucil, after one-third for the Institution and half of Lie maindcr I . :r k.uccessor, amounts to 253/. s(2 ,,i) caleu w 4.0 have not intended to coritiattn ;;up of my succes.sor and have cmtificates cf him, of this som, rem-ive back, on sundiog thcir nam,s„ the tv4:01,; amount of their admis-ion fee—not my third. but an equivol,Nit to the third riitairicif by thc CJuocil and to the thiri appropriated to my successor. Any surplus th:4 may remain I keep, but be to deposit with a G;rniniate of 3 - ou a tT ointeti by )ou. to dispose of in any rnanntr you ... may tinak proper, um:ow - tented will), the C( linapital, to which 1. had intended all any altlmately to go, though.' caunot 11GW allow a t,isp of mine io-pass to an institution tilos d, gnilkd. I take the ,lii.t.vtv of suggesting that Mr. tint's', in(liizetvion 'fel biro to return all his ticl: , :ts, be firs ; tirely reinibursei out of it. 1`;'.i . .1.1 great regret, C'xent!etner, at hciu•J: com?er4eat,, part from you ; with every ;v;s', ; t:oir,.o that you win rs ro:l,lJer : • io ct. _ ;44;.....t +.a.,14_ tb e hess of the greatest number, the bcs. ocenpavoi'i cf . your extstvnee, I remain, Your late faithful and affectionate iencl“,-, JOHN ELLIOT6O:' Conduit-street, March 4, 1839. A CAPITAL INN AND POSTING HOUSE the centre of aiiaricet Town, on a main road, about fifteen Miles from London, with possession, MO BE DISPOSED OF, in consequence of the death of the landlady, a most desirable Old-esta blished and Well-frequented FREE INN and HOTEL, in complete repair, making up 30 beds, large dining and rurnerous sitting rooms, liquor shop, and ample end domestic offices, de tached tap, stabling for 6 0 horses, lock - up co a c h houses, ug(' garden and paddock. The average trade will give satisfaction, and more than the rent and taxes is made by rentals let off; the coming in will be about 1,3001. For further particulars apply to Messrs. Warhers and Lovejoy, Appraisers, Farringdon-street, post paid. 34 OLD BOND-STREET. ELTASOLOMONS' VOICE CON DUCTORS for DEAF PERSONS have been en- nently successful in the most extreme eases of Defective ilenring ; are worn unperceived, being only one quarter of an imch in diameter, and convey the slightest sound so distinctly as to afford the greatest ease and assis'ance in all cases of Deafness. The success of his Amber Spectacles (the exclusive disposal of , hich is secured to his house by Royal Letters Patent) has induced parties to offer publicly as a new invention, professing to relieve vi sion, Deafness, and CATARACT WITHOUT OPERATION, common glasses of many years' standing ground o❑ the princii•le of the meniscus lens (employed for spec - acles forty years ago), which are highly injurious to the sight. These quack and absurd misrepresen tations might have been safely allowed to pass unnoticed ; but as the names of some medical gentlemen are used, it behoves one to in quire by what means their signatures have been obtained (if obtained at all) as sanctioning a direct untruth, by proclaiming such as "Ne - vly-invented Spectacles,' which are unanswerably nothing more than common glasses of a pink or reddish tint. This fact may to easily ascertained by applying to Mr. REARDON, SPECTACLE, GLASS MANUFACTURER, residing at 41, Easton-street, mouth-street, Clerkenwell; where the newly-invented Spectacle Lens. s are purchased at 7s. per dozen pair, or a single pair at Mr. E 's esta'aishment for Is. THE CORN-LX.WS. TO TEE EDITOR OF_THE SUN. Stn,—lf The Sun cannot enlighten on the Corn- laws, how vain to expect my taper will do so ; but there are places where the orb of day cannot enter. I advocate their repeal on the ground that it would immensely benefit the la bouring poor, and inflict only a partial and a trifling loss on the landowner. I will remark in the first place, on the advantages that would result to the labouring poor, and I think I need not stop to prove that it would lower the price of all kinds of provisions, but will proceed to show that it would be the mean* of providing employ meet to our unemployed poor ; and in order to simplify the matter, I will confine my remarks to the article of ,heat. It is notorious that wheat can be grown abroad, and imported into this country at a less price than it can be grown for here, io the extent we require it. It is not necessary to determine to what extent we should become importers ; but in proportion to the extent would be the beta fit to our labourer ; if we import largely, the benefit to the labourer would also be large. I arrive at this conclusion in the fol lowing way:—The amount of manual labour employed in the cultivation of wheat does not exceed 183. per quarter, while the atilt:runt of manual labour employed to pay for wheat of foreign growth would not'be less than 36a. per quarter. Now, supposing that we should import only to the extent we diminish our own growth, it would give em ployment to double the number of hands. But we may presume the diminished price and increased employment would cause us to import a much larger quantity, and to pay for the extra quantity thus imported would give employment to our present surplus population. It is. I imagine, scarcely necessary to observe, that the rate of wages is not regu• lated by the price of provisions, and that a - fall in the price of provisions may not necessarily be accompanied with fall in the price of wages. The price of wages is deter mined by the proportion the supply bears to the demand ; if the supply be redundant wages will fall ; if, on the other hand there he an insufficient supply, wz.vr , .s will rise. Under a natural state of things we , heuld antici pate a considerable rise in the prices of wages ; and that this would in some in;tanccs be the case, I have no doubt ; but that it would be the general result, I much question. The operation of our old Poor-laws, and the benevolence of many of our farmers and others, have prevented wages from falling so low as they otherwise would have done ; and at the present moment, the same effect is,produced by causes which are in a degree of a temporary character, viz , the employment afforded on the railroads; and it would, therefore, be unfair to hold out the pros pect of a general rise in wages ; but I think I have said enough, to show that the labourer would he immensely benefited by a free trade in corn ; and as a necessary consequence. benefit all classes, not excepting the farmer. I have now to show that it would inflict oily a partial and a trifling loss on the landowner. I say par tial, because much of the land in the vicinity of large towns would be increased in value thereby, and because much of our poor land, which at present yields only a small rent as tillage, would become of much greater value as pasturage, and which would be required to supply the increased con • sumption of butter, cheese, milk, meat, vegetables, &c., consequent on the extension of manufactures and com merce—l say trifling, compared to the loss they may have to sustain, if, by persisting in their injustice, they madden the people to rebellion. It is trifling, compared to the pecuniary loss the present system inflicts on the rest of the community. It is trifling, compared to the mo ral devastation it is scattering over the land : my heart sickens contemplating the mass of misery it inflicts on the suffering poor I —the numbers it has forced to an untimely grave I It is trifling, compared to their immense income derived from this source. It is finally trifling, compared to their representations of their probable loss. Some seem to expect that a free trade in corn will nearly assimilate prices in this country to the lowest market in the world, forgetting that the freight, the insurance, the interest of money, the merchant's profit, &c. arc nearly equal to 20s. per quarter, thus giving our land owners, a protection to that amount. It must also be re marked, that the low prices wheat has been seiling for in the continental markets, is no proof of the cost of its pro duction; their markets have been unnaturally depressed, partly by the circumstance of losing Great Britain as cus tomers (in the six years ending with 1830, we imported up wards of twenty-four millions of quarters of grain and flown but for the few years before the last, we almost ceased to import any), and partly owing to a succession of abundant crops, the same cause which produced in this country the ruinous prices of 1834, 1835, and 1836, when the average price of wheat for the three years, was only 445. BJ. per quarter, and this, too, under our much vaunted perfect sys tem to ensure steady prices. We may also fairly assume, that to import to the extent required to materially lower prices in this country, the cost of production abroad woule be considerably enhanced ; thus affording further protection to our landowner. There is also another protection, viz the difficulty we should experience in finding a market for our manufactures to the extent required to pay for a very large importation of grain. At every point the working of the free trade system can be viewed from, protection to the landowner presents itself. There is, however, one fact of which I wish to remind the landowner, viz., that at the present moment there arc nearly one million of acres of poor arable land under cultivation, which yield them no rent, but being let together with good land at a certain rent for the whole, continues to be cultivated, the good paying for the poor : what will they lose by throwing this out of cultivation ?—I am, A WELL-WISHER TO BRITISH AGRICULTURE. MACHINERY LABOUR.—The belief that ma chinery injures the working cusses, maintain,:d by numbors of that body, is founded on fallacy, that an increase in thct part of capital appli e dio machinery can be made only by diminishing that a ppli e d to the payment of wages. The ylvers. 1$ the fact. . The Kelso Chronicle intimates that some of the farmers in the neighbourhood of Kelso are making it a condition of hiring servants for the ensuing year, that they Subscribe a petition against the repeal of tie Corn- Laws. That such proceedings' are most disgraceful, no one will deny. PRICE sd. COPYRIGHT. TO THE EDITOR OF TEE SUN, Slit,—As Mr. Sergeant Talfourd has egain c rorw•ard his Bill on Copyright will you have ness tgollow sae through the medium of yc'ur witkly. extended Paper (so friendly last year to authors) to state what ought to be done to induce that import mit class of persons to read much and study hard, that t! ; ~y may produce more valuable works than they row d o . 1. Copyrights ought to be made perpetual copyright, like freehold estates. -__ _ _ . LI. Authors ought to be a chartered body, end ha - ve their college or ball like the physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries, and have precedence of these bodies. 111. That all copyrights should be entered at this col lege or ball, instead of Stationers' Hall. IV.—That there should be a sufficient number of rooms in this building to contain all the copies of works that authors (publishing on their own account) might wish to send for publication ; that eaeh thor &maid have his own compartment, with a ready reference to it, that any clerk, or war& man might, in a fcw moments, see what stock ti• .ere wa! on kind. , V. That no copywright should be allo we d i n such works as have an immoral tendency, nor in su c h as are brought u under fictitious names, mes Rcv. b e f ore a name with title s t i'..h er prefixed o .r t inxed to them, such as or LL.D., A.. 111., or EF.q.,- aft(l. it. Thi s praetieu : which, far these forty years, has been so common, is net only gulling the public, but is v - ery injuri ous to su,-,1 meritorious authors as have no titles to accompany then.' nam V es.. . That there should be no copyright in ar.,y work that has on its title page the name iiot and title of an exist ing person, unless it can be s pre s v m en t t ha a t no tl t i l a x t r pers t y i is t p lr ave a t i le t .e_ h , o n r iasi o ni a f etl yi that a T te c purchasingopyrights ot a n l a l m e e ltium ks, tir to os the ee heirs, clead or should descendantsuld (ifnotp e r f e v t i l o te u ' s u ly h _ t T o . i d) b w e " r s e e sto a r u e t provided such persons can be found. VIII. That all unclaimed copyrights should be as signed to the trustees of the Literary Fund Society for the purpose of increasing their fund, so as to enable them to grant annuities to unfortunate authors, or their families. IX. That a Magistrate should hose the power of inflicting a heavy fine on any person who shall - Say, write in any letter or invoice, that a work '' out of p:int," or "cannot be had," when 'lle cv:11 knows, or might know on inquiry, that there are many copies at the publisher's. X. That s heavy fine should be inflicted on any priffier who shall print an edition of any work without having in writing the consent of the author or prop t i e t or of the copyright, signed by his own hand ; or who, shall print a greater n umber of copies than wit are . stated in the ce,itten order of the author or proprietor. Xl. That if it can be proved by the publisher's b0r.1,, (verified on oath) that the works of an author have, fr, l , five successive years, produced him a clear profit of fort} shillings a year, such work should qualify him to vote for a Member of Parliament ; that if they have produced, for the same time, 3001. a-rear, they should qualify him to become a Member' himself for a borough and, it 6001 a-year, a Member for'a county. . XII. That all proof-sheets of a work (while going through the Press) should, on the paynknt of or ,`:', penny for postage, have all the privileges of a N ews , pa per.. • An Act of Parliament embracing these twelv e .would raise authors to that rank in life, to which by their education, study, and talents they aro so justly entitled; and do more towards improving th e mend state of the country than any other plans th e L e _ gidature can deviw. Let, then, authors and all well-wishers to their - Co u try persevere tlll these pointsareob yours,tainecl. 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