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M. -Licking, Prepared by I)XY c. ,cl 1 .\ RIJN, tttey I:aveadopiesl anew label, in which athlrt•ss, 97, High Holborn. is so conspicuously placed ill the centre, then they trust an :Mein: ,n to this;and thy. 411reerice of the type, which is all letter-press, with porchascri at once to cleteci the iinpoiition. The Real Japan BLACKING, made a anti Whol.saleby bAy an d NIARTIN, 97, Hig„ - li Holhoro, :.nth ; etailrti by V.: PrinciptitOroc,ers, Bool,sellers Irooaiongers, Pct.. P o ol-makers, `tc, in the United Kiogdoru, in Boyles hit Gd. Is. and is. rid. each. (From a Morning Paper.) ALTONA, DSc. 19.—1 t twist he desirable to every friend of historical troth, that one of the robed in an eelhirra - ssment trim which they can not extricate theinselveo. They, wi l l still have the Inns(if October 1814; and of 14(ifernbei 1815; which remain tuirepealed. moss extraordinary events of our . times—an event which has -excited the greatest interest -in -the present age, Bnd nvist figure equally in the page of history—nan*y, the destruction of the eastern capital of Russia. in 1812, should be ,deseribetl wili as 111,1dt accitnry 'as possible to our cotem- The remarkable speech Of, 'the. Ministei of Police, in the Sitting 01 the 15tli, has been the 11161?ICINE: • '471-110F1 unhappy 1 1 -tizois who, through the JR- tat , •Hses of ignorant pretenders to inedi , ,,al skill, '4r throo:;', t.r Int pi pen astinatints, in order to increase "spetree,, s : ttd :.-,uttitonat pangs, and become considerahle ' hiserS' •netav, &c. are e arnestly invited to the EAST LONDON. Ntiiil3.lCAL ESTAIILISIIMIT, 7., Catmint to m t e s 4,tast. near the Commensal-road Tornpilte, where C..1..5441:11):1N, Stir; - eon, ste, and ttvo tint tent Phyncians,, tpatv.t yeit r s regular practice. ca - : pn , y r thi9SitlldS f;;1l w.etirtis yearly In the Venereal Diseatse; owing to improper' truatintsirt, and tire use t hose poisonsios prcparati , ms termed ai,,s curials, which einirely debilitate and ruin !'te constitu tion isy itet ing irtto the INOICS,itZd. other frightful and alarm c;fect.,—dinimsc in the sight, noise in the ears, it.tafttess, &e.—at lest dropsy ensues, with a ; _tttneral Jehility and deca•of the ctoitu it ininn, originating front a dreadful disease Ito Iting in the !whir, or the system being poisoned by the use tpr ri ,,sicory. ll ts srs..'oltl).AN root Co„ may be consulted by all ranl:s of peo;tie, Iron tis rite morning tilt 9at night,' firs the cure of those affitrtett isith the Venereal Piseate, and the many distressing disorder , atirktig therefrom. Slight and re. -cent case's ettc radicallyeus est in three days, arot if. long stand ing, it cue will be pertornresi in 1 days, and Mr. J. baldly asserts; that neither fearing a competition of professional skid, itor having recoure the visdetit pursers of poisonous tnercurials, he challenges them to do by their minerals, what Are basnlinie by his mild ;node of treatment, as testified on oath before the Lisid Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London r• rood at ell times pledges himself that lie is ready to cure the aboVe kola& complaint, its most alarming stages, in one-fOlirtb of the time, arid at half the usual ex litTse,—Letters, post paid, enclosing a fee, and stating the tnto ,., o f t h e c „fflpi a int, will be insinediately attended to, :and medicine sent to an: part of die,kingdoin., **. Observe, the EASE LO DO NlEtirf• • EsTA.. 'BIASTIM ENT is dii-retly opposite to the Stone-tu s . y ar d, Cannon-street-road, St. Geer e'S in the East.'—;No conacction 'with any other Ilonse. COUGHS, COLDS, ASTIIMAS, Zi:c. tke. • ARNOLD'S PECTORAL BALSAM OF COUPSFOOT. ' " More Constirortive'Patientft date - the beginning of. their Disorders i ron , ~,,,,t f.,., : t., damp lyeds, night i:ir, wet, clothes; or catching cold ,:fter the doily has been he , ited, than Iron) all otber causes."--,:lucmaN. r , ][3' tiOlorions- that Coug h s awl t.mltls.are the •• for,erimorkt generally - , if n t at all times, of the deplora isle Disorder of Consumption ; ---t1), inconsiderate who neglect to .oemove Om, even in their :::.:. and second stages, do b u t too frequently realize the I.:, t ; inder, , , no sooner is the mask tents:wed, %chief veils. the fiis,“ der of Consumption, than the 'unhappy patient discovers bonself hastily a pproaching an nn tinsetv grave, .and he - seeks aromid„ bat too often, alas! in vain for resources to recover bins. ,' ' That most excellent Medicine, ARNOLIA PECTORAL MALSAM Of COLTSFOOT, fur Coughs, Colds, Astltrnas, 'the Hooping Cough, Shortness of Breath, and Consumptions, is allowed :to-be the greatest discovery ever made in the ,an. t rals of Medicine. It i s held in the h ie hest estimation for its excellent and salubrious virtues. Volumes : would not be sufficient to contain the mass of individuals who have taken 'it, and experienced its safe, salutary, anti inestitnal)le vir . Ades. Upwards. of t 80,090 Persons have been cored. In old Coughs, recent and , tong-Standing Astbinas, slight and re cent Couglis and Colds, Wheezings, Httarseness , the 400p jog Cough, Shortness.of-Breathraud Consumptions, thii Me f dicine is ly,the,ni o safe and effectual remedy. Nu-• -thing can be-better adapted than it, to .precept the ili effects i •orif damp air tool s foggy weather, nor can any thing be more excellent to take when wet, damp, or wet in the-feet, cold ~or shivering. in.thr body,,after a shower of ran,, or fall ot , snow, &c. &c. Above , 2,000 years has the herb ( Coltsfoo t; , 4rum which it is prepared, beer held in the highest cilium -0 tion. It coin forts all .relieves the atifieted speedily; it -causes individuals to breathe mote freel) - , ',and strengthens ' • their .constitutions agstost the 'deplorable ..and calamitous 1 effects of - Consumptive l'tisarders. ' :N.B. Persons will please to ash for Arnold's Pectoral -Bal. • saw of Coitsfout, and observe in the Pamphlet which is en- ' ,elosed,lthe':Certificate ;wade and attested hv the : Proprietor : 't - before the Bigot Hon. Matthew Wood, M.P. Lord Mayor of , I.ondor,at the Mansion-house,- the.'2sth.day of March, 1316, -without which it cannot be genuine. 1 Sold ~y Mr. Sanger, 150, Osford-street ; Weston:and Prout , 529, Stra.nd ; , Emerson, , so, Upper . 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These do works (the Liberty of•l'ropheS6sig, and his System of Casuis try), with his Discourse onl'riesidsbip, though theyAo not -contain his. most splendid passages, are the most•riniformly reasonable, and the most judiciously Contppsed-of his writings.' Edilibingh Review Sept. 1816. ' MASON .On SELF:kNOWLEDGE: New •Edition ;, fools cap 850. pt ice (ii. boards, tipd ttansmitted to posterity with as molly details 4 3 can be collected, and" as much preeihion as can be obtained. This is the motive which I have in view in making known thi rot. nwiug lActs A petson, %1010, at the period alluded to, resided at Moscow, who, was an eye-witness oI todoy.of the events that happeeen, and who had all lure,EA information In hit power, asserts, t hat it is a gross mistake to suppose that the destruction of Moscow tkas an herdic sacrifice ott !ix part of the Russiani. It is true that Count RosToPcutts burnt dOWn his own country-seat situate Oil the great road from Mojeist to Moscow, and left be ' hind a notice. on a pillar that he had so acted front hatred and contempt for NApor.Rdiq : but this was AO act of individual pall i n tism, and bad no relation or connexion with the events in the capital, al- though, this brave man was the GoVernor of it. liacl it been the ar4iinal intention of the Russians to Set fire to their city,t hey would have done it.the moment when the army abanddned th . edefeneeof it ;•hot aeci;- dental cireumStances were th'efitst and real causes of that event. As soon as NitPOLEoN had arileed at the Kremlin, his guards began to pillage the shops, And continued . so to do till night, when they ed whole bUndles of candles, fastened them upon their bayonets, and rambled thus, through the ma gazines of goods, and the markets of spites ; and When they had Satisfied their cupidity; left their lighted flambeaux behind. What wonder, then, that is conflagration broke oeu in every quartet' of the city, especially as most of the houses are (it wood 1- ••• NEWFOUNDLAND. THE LATE FIRE Sr. JoHN'S, Noy. 25.—1 t is perhaps needless , . , ~ to infotin 'onr Readeri, that various conjectures have been entertained 'relative to the canse'Of the last tire. 'fife public mind has certainly been hull of anxiety on the subject. The situaiion of the place in which the flames originated, the house in which they were first discovered, the short inter val of tithe which pad ,lapsed since tlit ) conflag ra- ttoh of the 7th, with other circumstances, had cornbined to' excite il'i the minds Oftuatiy persons the . most impVasiint suSpieions *that the dreadful cause of late alarthwas the result' of design. In cohiequence,.ths- :Grand Jiffy was convened, kind after 3 long and bill investigation 'into the suhiect, canie to, the ,folloulug Resolution, which we lay before our Readers *lib the most lively emotions of.satisfaction-, in hopes that it will re move every unfavoutuhle inipteSsioni by, which their minds may have lgeen hitherto agitated i-". !'Court-House,st. John's, 44,th how. 181,7. ' "The Grand Jury having duly considered the. evidence laid before them respecting the late fitei which happened on the morning of the 2441 in-' Vali!, FaVe the satMactiOn to state that they'ate unanimously of opinion, that the tire origihated solely through accident; and therefore they , beg to recommend that iniblicity may be Oven to the tet6lit of this inveStigallorl, in ohlei that every ' untavOurable iMprefsioir . on the subject may be reumoved froth the public mint!. • • ' 4DAVID TASKERi Form:min." ' . [Si. John's .Royal..Gazeto.] . subject of much converiatinn hue. It has been i.epartea that he fetbnehid it and softeneil it be fore it appeared in the Moniteur; hut the 'Bea Fran'tija had it complete oh the mot-ning arteribe sitting. That paper it now et:lnducted M. .Barba de Vitrolles, who atsureilly is not to much 'inclined to taotir M. Tie Cazes. Flower, in comparin,, ,, his ipeech in the Mono'erir with that in the. 800 Friincuis, only a very slight diffaence it observiible. I %vat preient at,this meitiorAble sitting of the 15th, and by accident sat nest to one of youf Lords of the Treasury, *,shit paid just coniplintentt to ,the eloquence of the-COunt de Lazes. beet) very foroadg an Administration ac cording to their taste ; bait in .all their' plans wily one fixed 01) . kct is to be perceived—nainely, the exchiSion of the Minister of the Marioe and thiS XcePer it the Sean. IVeil.inforined men are, hoWeeer, conineed that Messrs. Richelieu, and be Caies are not disposed to abandon tittle colleagues, .MM. rasquier and 11016. It is asserted, d o What appears tci be gOoit autlicirity', that the EiiiPeror Aleitander has Written with his Own . hand a letter from MoscOW to the Duke of Wellington; invting him to bect l inte a mediator bet Ween. Prussia and Pratiee, on the littestiOn of the priVate debts, and on the most equitable mode •of deciding the Matter ,to ,the 'satisfaction of both part:es. Th'e. following pas , sage front the letter is particUlarly 'quoted :--, " YOu dOubtlesi, iny Lord' Marshal, appreciate all thoie grave cansidcratiOni which plead in fa vour of a system of equitable conciliation: yon will, bring to the question all tit intelligence of a corre4 Undbrstanditig, all the ardour of a soul elevated to the importance of the Matter in issue, because i on this cittestic.n Perhaps depends the repose of France, and the llitiolability of the most sacred engagttlerits. Moderation' and gocid faith were the itioVerS - of that healing and beneficent powet Which has acted in our time ; anti it is for hint who prepared and seconged the great triumph, to come forward in all' critical moments, and cause to be heard the language 'of that moderation anti Of that good faith.!' It is not doubted that the Duke of Wellington will accept this honourable Mediation. It is cot tOin that his Grace it 6:fleeted at l'aris on the 27th of this month. • • • PRANKi'OII7', DEC. 13 Lamb, the-Eng , lisp Envoy, is the second diplomatic ag ent sen t to the (Jelin:Joie Dik. France 'has bad one at the Diet for ti long time. England followed the example; and Russia Will not'be slow in follow , ing the exanipte of England. 'PARING iitAgEnt About six o'clock on Mon• dail night, four inert, with their faces blacked, en , tered the dwelling.hOttse of THOMAS DiCkENS, Esq. of Hesston-corner, Clityttsey i and catried oti u valttable.guts, tt diatitund ring, feu silver.spoiitts seeet al articles of linen, and abotit 2L in cash. The'servartt who bad the cart of the house was watChed by one of the ruffians, while the others we potsessing themselves of the booty. In con sequence of the above robbery, and others in the neighbotirhoodi a meeting of the pritreipal inhaA bitants Was tally etled at the Swan lent, ail the fallowing day, which was attended by Lieut.- tieneral Scoti . , Admiral STlthalloi and mall. peisons of rank and property, when it was re , • solved that an Association should be forme A subscription •be entered intp , for the pec;tii', ;ion of property and persons in Chertsey.Eglinfir„i Thorpe, and Cobham; and also that it eew:ifil l'2o guineas should be offered for the appreo - of the persons concerned in the abLri, bery.