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DOWNPATs P. ASSIZES.

At the Assizes of Downpatrick, which ended on
Wednesday the Ist of August, a most important
trial took place in the Crown Court, before the Hon.
Faro:. Groacz and a respetable Jury of the county
Down.

A'#xande► Sri-err and 'Wert Sievert, the father
a-d sor, stood indieted for forging and uttering a
deed of conveyance, and a receipt for the considera-
tion thereof, indorsed therein, dated 14th December,

17,15, wish intent to defraud Thomas ►► atson, the
fii andson of said Alexander, and nephew of Thohras
Stewart, and being capitally convided of uttering
the said receipt, knowing it to be forged, which is a
capital felony under Inc Ara of 39 Geo. 111. received
sentence of death, to be executed at Downpatrick,
on Wednesday the 29th of August.
The Learned Baron, in passing sentence of death
on the prisoners, observed, with great force, on the
cruelty and enormity of the crime. Forgery in it-
self; he ►aid, was highly injurious to society ; but
when praßised by such near relatives to defraud a
poor helpless infant of his small patrimony, and was
supported by perjury and conspiracy, it became
dJuhly atrocious, and called loudly for punishment;
and therefore be besought them pathetically and l.n-
manely not to indulge any vain hope of mercy
(which in this case would be public cruelty), but to
prepare by repentance or prayer for the law taking
its course.

We are extremely sorry to find that the report of
the death of Admiral Di acrier turns out to be cor-
n& lie had on Saturday another attack of the fit
which lately seized him, and he expired in a few
hou.l. During a long life, his Lordship uniformly
slittingnished himself as, at once, a brave and skilful
commander. The battle of Campadown completed
his naval fame, and will hand down his name to the
latest gene:adults. He has left behind a large fa.
mily. Several of his sons are designed fur the navy,
and will not, we hope, sully their father's honour.
On Tuesday evening last the wheel of a hackney
coach flew off on Holborn-hill. The coachman was
thrown from his box on the pavement, and bruised
exceedingly. He was immediately taken to the hos-
pital with little appearance of life.
A Mrs. Jacirsua, of Sheffield, sixty years of age.
and in respedable circumstances, hung herself on
Wednesday in a fit of insanity, by tying her pocket
handkerchief to the latch of her chamber-door.

The assizes for the coanty of Hants, held at Win-
c:.e,ter, closed on Friday seenaight.
At these assizes, Pdtr. Molest was • tried for the
wilful murder of James West, in the parish or Dar.
ley, by stabbing bim s..ith a knife, in the aft of taking
rooks, in company with John Fox, uncle of the de-
ceased, and James and Edward Dowse, two brothers,
from a large rookery belonging to Mr. Houghton,
at Darley-mill, on Saturday Might, the tith of May.
It appeared, that during We course of a long
trial, the deceased and his conyanions had
come in the night to take the rooks, and behaved
in a very disorderly manner. It came out iq evidence,
likewise, that just previous to the fatal blow, the de.
ceased said t' his companions, " Here comes one;
take hold of the rrseics, I'll face him !" He then
stepped oat about two yards, and held up his har.ds
in a fighting posture. The Prisoner rushed in upon
him. The Prisoner jumped up, and twice said,
Here's oae man acad."

After tbe evidence WAS gone through, Lurd Low-
rie aft, in whose service the Prisoner had been nearly
ten years, and who bad come from Westmoreland,
a distance of between three and io.ir hundred miles,
for the express purpose, aid several other Gentlemen,
gave the Prisoner a good charaaer, as beir.g a peace-
able man. The Jury r tturned a verdia, .1/ 4-ht,r.
The Prisoner was then entenced to six mon;.:ls
lawn:content, and ta pay a fuze of

HISTORY OF ♦ACCINATION, IN TURKEY, GREECE,
AND TUE EAST INDIES.
B J. DL CARao, M.D.

M. De C.trro, having set the example of tend,-
nation in his own children, an example very wor.
thily imitated by a great number of persons of dis-
tinition, widely spread this beneficent practice, by
sending to his correspondents in every quarter,
thread, cups, and lancets of silver and ivory,
impregnated with the vaccine matter, with proper
instrußions for using them. He had the satisfac-
tion to succeed beyond his hopes. Through his
zeal, great part of Germany, Poland, Hungary,
and Russia, was made acquainted with this me:-
tin:able discovery ; and to hint Asia owes this great
blcsing. In the year IStio, 1w set:: the materials to
Constantinople for the son of my Lord Elgin ; and,
by the assiduity of Doe-tors White, SCC!:, Hass,
Pezzoni, Auban, &c. vaccination has at length
gained a footing in the capital of the Otto.
man Empire. Notwithstanding the prejudices
of the Turks, ever the enemies of innovatioa,
vaccination is introduced even into the Seraglio,
where Dolor Roini, Physician to the Grand
Signor, vaccinated a child of one of the domestics,
with the approbation of his Highness, to v hom he
had presented an extra& from the work of Dr. Dc
Carro. By the indefatigable industry of this Phy-
sician, vaccination has penetrated from thence into
Greece ; Dr. Casgitti, at Athens, and Dr. La Font,
at Selonica, pradising it with great success. Hut,
from thence to the Indies, the distance is so great,
that, although the fame of this discovery has made
a great sensation there, it had not been introduced
to this unhappy country, where the small pox makes
such ravages, that one-third of the whole number
that take it naturally die et the disorder, and one
in forty or fifty of those who are inoculated. The
English had, in vain, often sent t':read and cups into
that country, impregnated with the vaccine matter.
These had always failed ; whether the length of the
voyage had destroyed the aaivity of the vaccine mat-
ter, or it was owing to any other cause At length. 11r.
Harford, the British Resident, at the Court of the
&shave of Bagdad, sent to request matter from
Dr. De Carro, through Mr. Paget, Envoy Ex-
traordinary from the King of England to Vienna.
The Donor sent the matter with particular care :
beside lancets of pure silver, of silver gilt, and
ivory, he sent to Bagdad. cups impregnated with
the vaccine liquid, according to the method invented
by Dr. Jenner, and improved by the Hanoverian
vaccinators, Drs. Wellborn and Strorneyer. He
afterwards dipped several times into melted wax
these closed cups, which he enclosed in a boa. I-
was thus that that the vaccine matter arrived still
liquid, on the borders of the Tigris ; where it suc-
ceeded at the first trial. It had been taken front
an infant vaccinated with cups, that Dr. Louis Sac-
co had sent to Vienna, which had been very suc-
cessful. The original matter had been taken from
one of the cows of Lombardy, and this was the sole
source of all the vaccinations made in Asia. Thus
Great Britain transmitted the blessing to the West.
and the It .lian Republic to the East.
From Bagdad. where Dr. Short soon sproad the
practice, the vaccine inoculation penetrated swiftly
to Balsora. and thence to Bombay, by the
care of Mr. Milne, a very able surgeon. It
was, in the month of June. 1802. that Ann Dul-
thils, of three years of age, daughter of a domestic
of Capt. Hardy, was vaccinated at Bombay; and,
in the month of o,llnber, there were more than a
thousand persons in that country who were succes-
sively vaccinated, who all had the disorder in the
mildest and most regular manner precisely the same
as in Europe. 'I he vaccination was already spread
through Hyderabad, Mysore., Madras, and all the
provinces of Canna, and lablabar ; thanks to the
seal of his Excellency the Governor-Gen. at India,
to distribute this great blessing. In the month of
March following, there were more than lr ,000 vac-
cirated in the Island of Ceylon, wltsse Govenior,
Mr. Mooth, entirely suppressed the Small-pox Hos-
pital there, resolved to propagate the art of vacci-
nation. At length it spread with such rapidity,
that in a work of Dr. George heir, appointed by
the Governor of Bombay to superintend vaccina-
tion, a work which appeared in the month of May
last, it is stated, that in a multitude of large cities,
such as Calcutta, Masulipatam, Trincomalee, Cali-
cut, Pondicherry, Mallore, &c. vaccination was
generally adopted. After a great many u-ials with
the variolic virus, not one individual took the small-
pox.
The eagerness of the inhabitants of India to be
vaccinated, they and their children, notwithstand-
ing their aversion from all innovat ion, and their exces-
sive indolence, greatly surpasses that of Europeans ;
which is to he attributed—lst, To the religious
veneration which the Indians have for the cow :
which, as is well known, plays a great pant sat fie r
sacred history.-3d, To the happy thought of I.
James Anderson, first Physician, at Madras, to give
to vaccination a name taken from the Sanscrit lan-
guage, which means Onviortaiot, as preserving from
the death which the small-pox occasions. The name
is elauriass, derived from the primitive 41frie. and
the Indian word ivrtunt, dead, from which comes the
Persian word warden, the La t n word nefer,and theE ng-
sh ward murder: perhaps, too, the word soar* ihr.ur
immortal; and the Turkish word wawa also the
word 111110111111111 is become in I:, 1.1 a genetic term for
cow's milk. lam convinced, says the Doftor, that
this word will make its way more easily in the king-
dom of Candy, in the peninsula of India, and to
Hindostan, than the word Car fox.-3, To the zeil
the Bramins have shewn for this pradlice. Dr.
Yates speaks of one who himself vaccinated a great
number of children with complete success. And in
the Island of Ceylon, it was not thought p adent to
confide vaccination to the physicians of the country,
but their zeal for this preservative rendered the pre-
caution tinneceasary.-4th, To the care with which
the physicians of India preserve the source of tne
vaccine matter. .• When it has succeeded in any
quarter (they say), it is our care to guard with vigi-
lance so precious a treasure ; for if we once lose it,
it will be difficult, perhaps impossible, to regain it.
Here we cannot go to the original source, as in
England ; for. unhappily, Providence has not granted
to the cows of our country, a gift so salutary to man.
Thus, whether we consider the present value of the
vaccine matter to the individual. or think of pos-
terity, we must preserve it with anxious solicitude."
In India, as well as in Europe, the difficulty of
Taceisatiug with the dry MAW has been felt, aail