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inclement clirbe and season (anal 'llierugri the
economy they were obliged to observe with respect
to Titel did not allow of their keeping • fire in at
night), to supply two or three scorbutic patients with
nearly an oulice of fresh mustard and creams drily;
and wheat it Is considered how very small ti qu•utity
of fresh vegetable matter is a perfect specific for this
scourge of a sea-faring life, it is to be hoped that this
simple meithottof procuring it will be rifterver resorteit
to. These vegetables were of good flavour, though
pdfectly colourless from the priVatiou of light
but u this peculiarity may only, add to their value
its the eyes of those who are feed of seeing any
thing' as Nature intended it to be, Arctic salading
may he introduced as an enviable rarity in future
bills df fare at our 1118'1,one:de tables; and perhaps,
in process of time, become a regular branch of
luxury with the Esquiinaux ladies, should our ac-
cidental interconrie with them terminate, as at-
tempts at civilitation generally dn. 111 inspiring
them with a contempt for every thing within their
reach, and a desire of any thing apparently lie.
yond it,
Towards the end of January some of the ports
were opened, in order to admit the carpenters and
arinourers to repair the main-topsail-yard ; in or-
der that, at least, a shew of re-equipment for sea
might be made. On the 9d of February the suit
was seen from the main-top of the Heels, for the
first time since the 11th of November. By the
7111 there was sufficient day-light, from eight o'clock
till four, to enable the meta to perform, with facility,
any work on the outside of the ships ; they began,
therefore, that day to collect stones for ballast, to
make no for the loss of weight by the expenditure
of provisions and storm By the 15th Capt. Perry
wits induced, by the increased length of the date,
and the cheering presence of the sun for several
hews above the horizon, to open the dead-lights of
his stern-windows, in order to admit the day-light.
alter a piivation of it fur four months in ►hat part ni
the ship. The baize curtains which had been nailed
close to the window,. in the beginning of the winter.
were so firmly frozen to them that they were obliged
to be cut away, and twelve large buckets full of
ice, or frozen vapour, to be token from between thi,
double sashes before they could be got clear. This,
premature uncovering of the windows, however,
caused such a change in the temperature of the
/feria, that, fur several weeks after, those on board
were sensible of a more intense degree of mild than
Viey had fel all the preceding part of the winter.

SUM.NEIt ASSIZES.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.

Before Mr. Baran RICKARDS and Mr. Jostle. PARK.
Northansplonsisire—Tuesday, July 31, at Northampton.
liollood—Proloy, August 3, at OsLhasa.
Lincolnshire—Saturday, August 4, at the Castle of Lincoln.
Cily of Lincoln—Same flay, at the City of Lincoln.
Nottiophomuktre—Thonsday, August 9, at Nottingham.
T'own of Aoltiagkoto--Saaa: day, at the Town of Not-
tingham.
Drrbyskire—Saturday, August 11, at Derby.
Leicestershiro--Weduesday, Animist 1.5, at the Castle of
Leicester.
Borough of Lairs:ter—Saw day, at the Borough of
Leicester.
City of Coventry—Saturday, August 13, at the City of
Coventry.
franetekskire—lime day, at Warwick.
WESTERN CIRCUIT.

Bell?* Mr. Banta GlLlalellt and Mr. Justice gm%
Sou/lumpfon—Monday, July 20, at the Castle of ?Via-
cheater.
Wifts—Saturday, August 4, at New Sarum.
Dorset—Wednesday. August 8, at Dorchester.
Deson—Saturday, August 11, at the Castle of Luster.
City Gad County of Ezoler—SAroe slay at the Guildhalt
of the City of Exeter.
Commal/-.-Mosiday, August 20, at %drain.
Sonorsot—Saturday, August 24, at Bikliessater.
Cify and Comae, of Brlolcd—Houdo, September 3, at
the Guildhall of the City of Bristol.