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MOtALTST AND NATURAL PHILOSOPin,

-WG*llll2l, Aso . '

Last night, by desire of her Grace the Ductless
of MARLIMUOUGV, the Comedy of "
.7w4a Bull,"
and the farce of " Tire Old M 44," were performed
at the Theatre tix an overflowing audience. In
the play, Mr. Powstt performed the part of
Pe.-rgriire with judgment ; that of Job Vornterry
lost nothing of its charaitelical excellence, in
the hands of Mr. BENNETT ; and the part of Minis
Brulgruddeey wit; performed by Mr. Bev Ea Lit v,
of Covent Garden Tlica:re, who, though not a ha-
gifted with the vernac•ilar suavity of the
1I erra went. through the part with eon-
s der able applause. The original /Irst/grvacra
(loitxafroNc) was a speeotor in the boxes; and
though he might not have contemplated in the part
his own effigy, csr/sei in prellinn , yet he heartily
laughed approbation. to his competitor. In the
farce, 'bliss liautivrott performed the part of Mrs.
Ihr with her usual vivacity; hut Mrs. SPAENEs.
in M 114P1010 (the old maid), exhibited so happily
the chara.eristic stiffness of the pert, as to excite
very great applau,e.

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LEAVES, Airs

About half past twelve c'clo:k on last Saturday,
Thomrs Kennedy, the ui h tppy s tidier, who at our
Ls: Assizes was condemned to be hanged for a
burglary in the house of William Marten, at lckle.
sham, was, by the Turnkey, surnaloned from his
cell, in Her,ham jail, to the cart prepared for his
conveyance to the place of Execution on the Com-
mon, which is but a short distance from the town.
At the tail of the cart, which contained his coffin,
stood Jack Catch, with the halter, by which the
unfortunate man was soon to be suspended ; but
at the sight of this dismal prep ration. he betrayed
net the smallest fear or trepidation, but on the
contrary, he approached the art and slept into it,
with a manly fortitude that bespoke him perfealy
resigned to his law, and ready to meet the awful
eking,. he was about to experience. I laving seat. al
him:climb his coffin, with the Roman C ,:holic priest
who attended him in prison, the carriage moved
slowly on to the fatal tree, whale, after addressing a
few words to the multitude (the purport of which
w •s. that he should die in forg.v:•ness with all the
world, and hoped that all the %solid woad f rgive
him), he was launched into eternity. After bang-
ing the usual time, his body was cut down, and con-
veyed to the church-yard, where it was iaterred.
Two females, with wens, attended the execution,
aorl.lnl the parts affeaed rubbed with the hands of
the dead man.

Cheeseman, who was some time since removed
from Horsham gaol (As mentioned in a former pa-
per), and who, about a f utnight ago, was executed
:at Wiachestor for horse -steAlangovas, although young
man, u vu y old offender in that line. Whilst in Won-
ham gaol he numbered upwards of 170 horses which
he had been concerned in stealing Two or three
nights prior to his execution, the above malefaCtor
is said to haye slept in his codin ; an.i at the gal-
Liws he behaved Yes), resolutely, and with apparent
unconcern.

Sunday. two large ships, loaded with masts.
were brought up to la kis iluads by one of His
MA JUT v's hired armed vessels. They were under
neutral colours, but it is supposed their cargoes
were French property.
At C'onmel Assizes. tut week, an aUion for de-
famatory words, in which Colons:1 ilaowszt, M.P.
for Clenmcl, was Plaint:4 and KOMU !ID Powell,
PI :ate: of The Curdle and Afornatcr Mererty,
was Defendant, was tried before a most resp •c
Jury. The damages were Lid at 5000!. e 4 a
trial which lasted about fourteen h. tir,, •
fistind a verdift for the Plaintiff, &OM ' s •
6d. costs.

A 'melancholy accident hap.; i •,• :
two o'clock ; a young lady ;ea •is ; - •
crossing the way near Tempie-bar, w.t.
aho se ; her hack, an arm, and
and •he was taken home to her discuabolate
without hopes of recovery.
Monday morning, about two o'clock, a young
lady of great personal accom,lishmeurs, and daugh-
ter of a respeetable merchant in the City of London,
in a fit of despair, threw herself out of a two pair
of stairs window, at her father's house, and was
literally dashed to pieces. On the fatal news being
communicated to her family, her moth w, with
wit nn she ever had bet n a favourite, instantly
snatched up a knife which lay near her, and, horrid
t r relate. stabbed herself in such a manner that her
life is despaired of, and the unfottunate father now
lays under the influence of mental derangement.
An accident of a very serious nature happened
to one of the Liverpool coaches, between Carlisle
and Penrith, Moody se'ennighr in the morning.
Not far from the village of Plumpton, while the
horses were going briskly, one of the wheels came
off; the consequence of which was, that the driver
was much h:trt, being thrown 'rids violence from
his seat among the horses; and two outside passen-
gers got each of them a broken leg. Mr. tlrran Are
of Wetheral was one of these unfortunate passen-
gers, and iris case is trnly deplorable I One of his
Irrnbs was so terribly bruised and shattered by the
fall, that amputation was rendered lama ha • (t no-
emery, which took pi Ist: in the superior part of the
thigh. The roof of this vehicle is railed ail round,
excring the front : through these iron rails the pas-
sengers had Incautiously pot their legs; in ally other
situation, it is probable, their sufferings would have
been lighter.
A few days ago, a woman applied to the Magis-
trates at Liverpo, 1 for a piss, who appeared from
her own account, corroborated by other testimonies,
to+e a very remarkable charaher. She had served
as a soldier on the continent, during a good part of
the late war, and on hoard a privateer in the pre.
sent war, in the same disguise. In this last situation
die was taken prisoner, and had been liberated on
the discovery of her sex.
A letter from Yarmotith, of the !Sas, says, "On
Monday evening we experienced a most dreadful
storm It tore up by the roots and broke several
trees ; the rain fell in torrents, and the thunder and
lightning were incessant. The damage at sea was
uot so much as might be expeeted ; two small ves-
sels went on shore at li.:ppisburgh, but will be got
off karly next morning, a large vessel, supposed
to be a foreigner, -.vas lost on llappistrurgh
fhe cant was most of it Invents: to the ground."

•• AN ISSAY ON WON CR.
In which they are considered at compared to Men, particularly
in tlo moral, physical, and philnedlthieal relations. ton
tom: new App.lCatiOta on their peculiar divwders.

IF ROM Tat. t40N1.VE1.:11.3

it is certainly an error to believe, that after the
learned treatises of Ronpel. de Vigorous, de Clint-
ni Sic. there is nothing more to be said on the phy-
sical and m 'rat fosmanon of Women. This sietct
is so very intricate that it requires a most extensive
knowledge of anatomy. and very acute observation ;
the truth of ohrch is but too apparent. in the vague,
uncertain, and contradittory theories which have
hitherto appeared on this subjeCt. Add to this, that
these qualities in women as in children, present ta
us such various and often 'wonderful phenomena,
that they cannot be examined with too much atten-
tion he those who possess the most eniightened un-
derstanding, and the greatest medical knowledge;
tin- in spite of all the elaborate works of the most
di•onguished men, muds yet remains to be explained
on the maladies of women and children, which are
as yet unknown, or too little attended to, to enable
us to particularise them with precision. This race is
yet to he run ; but every body is not capable of join-
ing in it. 15r. G. dotard has already made his en-
trance in his noee on the merit, of Liam; a work into
which he has thrown some physiological hints on
their constitution, on their moral charaeter, and on
the cause of their ;oil ticelar disorders.
He has now undertiiken a most difficolt part,
through which we will follow him in his descrii,-
tion of disorders, and his examination of the most
moral an I natural affinity between men and women.
We will not here re-trace those puerile declama-
tions in verse and prose, which have appeared
against wo rens, or those works, worse than ridicu-
lous, which have made it a question whether women
have, or have not a soul. Such productions only
evince the phrenzy of systematic folly, or rather o
nonsensical colouring of a partiality injurious to
that sex, whom nature has evidently placed with
ours in a state of mutual dependence, and whom she
has favours d with prerogatives nearly equivalent to
those which it has pleased certain authors to flatter
their pride, by supposing themselves the exclusive
possessors.
We confine out selves to this New Limy, &c. of
Dann- inward, of which the principal aim is to
shesv, that, independent of all comparative pre.
eminence or peromal merit, women are really more
u-happy than men, as mitch in consequence of their
natural constitutions, as by the privilege they arro-
gate to themselves in their choice of those who are
to proteCt their weo'sness, and partake with them in
the cares of that far-ally which owes its birth to the
union of the sexes. It is to arrive at this end, that
the author searches into questions relative to the
physical and moral formation of women, and then
undertakes their apology, not with a view to Litter
them, or satyrise m. n, but only to thew that those
faults which they wish amended in them, are so
far from being detests, that they are the natural
consequences of their formation, and that the most
serious failings they are reproached with, almost
always proceed from the arbitrary powers exercised
ag them by the stronger sex, from the kind of
edu. ation that is given them, from the imperfeCtions
of their social institutions. and above all, from that
terrifying immorality, which influences, in despite
of their oatmeal and acquired modesty, all those ad e
f licentiousress, hypocrisy, adulation, artifice, mut
the consequent train of seduction and corruption.
To return no more to comparisons between the,
wire:, which are always odious, at whatever side
I.ll' be the advantage, we will observe that it is at
• .ace unjust and absurd in an to take advantage
of the attributes of his sex by condemning or throw-
, .ng into disgrace the *dims and condun of wo.
mea ; for err wisdom of nature glitters not exclu-
s v.oy in either woman or man. but receives a mu-
,
teal lustre when they are joined by those ties which
I are ordained for the happiness and increase of the
human sliccics.
After these general considerations, it only re-
mains to give a sketch of the,particular theory of
the Autho-, on his Study of the Nellie and Pecu-
liar Maladies of Women. If his opinions are pa-
radoxical, they are not on that account destitute of
uth, and sometimes of solid reasoning. He pre-
tends, for example, that women are, it is true, ner-
vous, but in a sense quite contrary to that which
professional men give to this expression, and think
that the nervous system of women is extremely irri-
table, and on that account they have frequent re-
course to quieting remedies its anodines and a ti-
spasmodic'. The Doctor iasists, on the oontrary,
thrt women may be "snows in the very accoptatith
that is used to signify that a man is striae and are
was, that is to say, that there is in her a predo-
minance of the nervous system, as there is in man a
predominance of bodily strength in the muscular
system. To prove this opinion, he refers to the im-
punity with which women give themselves up be-
rind all restriction, to excess of pleasures most ca-
pable of impairing the nerves, and support vexa-
tions and passions, which would muds sooner sink
the strongest man.
On the whole he ha-. wtioen with spirit and
method ; guarding equally against common preju-
dice, or toe danger of ineirudeot innaarian ; he
admits 110 ordinary hypothesis, however plausible,
that wants positive confirmation, and gives some
additions and hints which agree with the seceived
opinions. lilis style is decent and well supported,
but sometimes obscure, which is perhaps owing
to the difficulty of the subject he treats on.

ToLimes.

' An unpleasant circumstance occurred on Wed-
nesday se'ennight,, in the bosom of a family un-
known to indigence or want. At the village of Kirk-
by, in Cumberland, the possessors of a handsome
little cottage, while they were pleasingly recounting
the produce of the garden, agreed among them-
selves that they would preserve the remaining stock
of gooseberries. To carry this resolution. Into ef-
fed!. one of the diaugluer a .1241 sent into the garden
to lighten some of the bending branches, and the
father went to Maryport to buy sugar: at this tine
the mistress of the house slipped into the barn, and,
with the sharp points of a pair of scissors, cut and
mangled her throat in such a manner aL. to occasion
herahnost immediate death.

BALTINtIIte, J‘Ly 16.

Cit esterdnr, ahout three o'clock, p.m. we erpe,
rienced anwlier storm of •rain, thunder,* and light.
s-
ning t which, though it did not coi:tiam: for a great
length of time, was nevertloele* mach more severe
than any of the great number we had, almost
for some time past. *lshe clouds in glnomr Brae.
Jeer moved with rapidity over our city, an 1 in their
course, their electric fluid burst in quick secce:;ii an,
with vivid flashes, and peals of thunder. l.msi and
awful in An uncommon degree, it struck the Ger-
man Presbyterian Church in Second-strecr, havino,
as it app.-:tred, first descended in an anger-hole
the top on: of the main pos's in the frafr!r psi-t
the steepie, which is now progressing tor the re„.
tion of the town-clock : h split tbe post, and in
tering the church the divided—one part
scended in nearly a strait course fern wiie:e it
struck, the other made its way tianseersely don t
the west roof to the opposite side of the
and then descended, and in both direaiontseire
the plaistering considerably, and with sut.pi
force scattered it over and even quite to the oap,, ;
end of that extensive church ; besides, it shiverei;
some of the wood-work and one of the doors in the
gallery, and tore the latter off its Mager. So eces-
surely was the end of the church filled where it
struck, that it burst a number of windows; and so
treat was the stuck, as most sensibly to eledrise a
number of persons at a considerable distance, it
about a northern direftion from the church. Hap-
pily at this junaitre the congregation were not assem-
bled, the pastor having fortunately had a call for
ministerial services out of the city, which occa-
sioned the church to be closed.