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signing a dime ; hiccup, with mahogany counte-
nance, and a variety of malignant symptoms, not
easily described. In the evening of this day, he
was removed to Staten Island; vomiting black niat-
ter came on during his passage, and continued,
at im•rvals, until he died, which took place on
the 13th day of his disease, atiended with all the
horrid and awful appearances that usually occur in
malignant cases of concentrated endemic, or yellow
fever.
I have sought, with all the diligence and care that
I posses., fur the origin of this frightful disease. It
has been impos•ible for m: to trace it to any ship or
vessel whatever. And indeed, if I had been able to
do so. it would not have followed, that the unclean
rubbish of a ship bad been taken on board, in balk,
at a foreign port, and not have been engendered and
manufaCtured within her.
For a ship, Wm her constriction and use, being
tit st a rnanufalory of pestilential matter, end then a
veticle, to transport it from place to place, wherever
the goes, is herself the kcal source of the greatest
part of that very mischief which is unreasonably as-
cribed to the ports ftotn which she sails.
As fir as I can penetrate the cause of this disease,
I will state it. The patient was an Englishman; he
had been accustomed to a portion of earth and at-
mosphere by far cooler than ours; he had the north-
ern constitution and habits of a Yorkshire man ; and
he bad been but a short time in our city.
It is well known, when men of such temperaments
migrate to the 'oath, they commonly undergo a sea-
soning, as it is called, to their new place cf residence;
Englishmen have to undergo this operation, when
they remove thither, as our own people are obliged
to submit to it, when they move to Orleans. Men,
so circumstanced, often become diseased before they
ate reconciled to their new situations, and, in many
cases, the stamina of life break, before they can be
bent to their required shape.
In the case of Hibbron, there was the ordinary
pm-disposition of an English stranger, and he seems
to ha ee fallen a viaim to the c:anbined agency of
causes, which a native scarcely. feels, because he is
seasoned and habituated to them, but which fre-
quently net with irresistible powers upon visitors
from the north.

........
With sentiments of high respea and esteem, I re-
main, your most obedient,
RICHARD L. WALICIR.
The President and Member, of Vie Board of I lealth.

NATAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOCTII, OCT. 18.

Arrived His Majesty's ship Eagle, with the ships
lii4bertg, Thompson; Duke of Kent, Addington ;
and the America, Robinson. under convoy from
HAl'tax, in 4n days passage. A brig has parted
horn the fleet.

Arrive.i the Orpbeut frigate from the Downs.
Sailed His Majesty's ship Hind for the Mediter-
ranean. Wind N.E.

OCT. 19.
mind West-

Arrived several sail of
Indi.amen.
The Crow Isle, ---, from Tortola, for Clyde,
has been taken by the Don Pare Spanish privateer,
retaken by the Rattler sloop of war, and is arrived
at Cm k.
The Nertuae, Stanwood, from New Orleans, is
captured by a Spanish privateer.
The Anne, —, or New-York, from Virginia,
for Bordeaux, was deserted at sea, on the 3d inst.

PLYMOUTH, OCT. 17.

Came in the Commerce, Mattocks, from Malaga.
Sailed the Name: frigate on a cruise ; and the
Insairoe gun-brig with a convoy to the eastward.—
Wind N.W.

PALMOUTII,.OOT. 16.,

Sailed the Lord IT oinre packet, Deake, for Lis-
bon, with a mail ; Prince eldephus packet, Boul-
Jerbon, for New York and Halifax, with mails ;
the Ronetleila ( American ship), -, for Venice ;
the American ship Aoterire, Captain JefFord, for the
Cape de Verdes; and the Morristown armed brig,
with a fleet of coasters, under convoy, for Wales.
Wind N.E. _ _

DEAL, OCT. ti 4.
Sailed for the River several homeward-bound
West- I ad i amen.
Art ived the Ciand and t:Unite sloops of war,
from off the French coast, and remain in the Downs
with t►e test of the ships as pet last. Wind N.E.

OCT. 19.

Arrived, the &curt, —, from Surinam ; Wad-
stray, .loner, from Jamaica ; and several other
homeward-hound West-Indiamen.
Sailed through the Downs, the Pits, Newcombe,
for New Providence.—Wind northerly.

II ARWICII, OCT. Iq.

The Prime of Wales packet came in last night
from liucum, with the mails and several passengers.
The Packets sailed yesterday with the mails for
Mom but put back in the evening. and are now
detained here by contrary winds. Two Messengers
are waiting with dispatches, one for the Court of St.
Petcrsbut gh, and the other for Vienna.

PROM LLOYDS LIST.
ARIMD.
Off Dover.—The Hannah, —, from Warm; Diana,
French, from New-York; Canadian, Shadfortb. from St.
Thooto.'s; Haddock, Redman, from St. Lane; Ostle,
from Antigua; and the Britannia, Dalrymple, from Deme-
rara
O Portsmouth—The Simon Cock, Sevin, fins Trinidad ;
Industry, WAskull, Crum Dementia; and 'Prince of Wale.,
Stocker, from St. Vl:vein's.
At Falmouth--The Commerce. from Surinam.
At Scilly—The Albion, Allan, from Jamaica.
At Liverpool—The Unitas IJand,—, from J 3171214,1;
Lilly of the Valley, —, from Liston; Thetis, ........, from
tetersburgh ; Commerce,Woodstock, awl the Brothers, Bow.
Lod, from Diteuerara.
At LaMar.-The James, from Halifax.
In the etydo--The flerbsrt, }leads...son Jean, George; and
the P.lgritu, Patterson. from Omuta., ; Imbella,
f can St. Lint's ; Derain, Cuinininv, and the tioghtuw, Ca.
micron, Item Tanitid. Diana' brown, Irvin St Viticent:s;
front Tortola ; Nfarg vett, Warm argaiet,
Lassilliales; Mims, F.sh; and the Alidles, Douglas, (rum Ja-
maica
At Cork-Tbe John and Thomas, Clark, from Jamaica;
and the Kingston, Ladd, from Trithdad.
At Duldui.s.Tbe Lively, Hu'w, from Trinidad; Valentine,
Sealiont and the Laken/4 Collins. front Antigua; Druid.
Moore, and the Mercury, hunt St. Vnicorit's ; Anne and
Las, Lintodale, and the Ihyade, flion St. Kitt's; Su-
*arrow, [feral, arid the Eliza, Londe, Irsin Barb-idries.
Jo 14;44u7 Bay-. The biota's. Ilathwity, trona Suriusai.

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