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QU.AR.4IIIITINE A,T ANG4I.E CR.E AK:

5 IRON TBE JOURNAL Or A sasysi.tee.l
4. 1 at Gibraltar on the 13th of May, in a evi-
-1 ' nol INN Alexandria. laden with linseed, and arrived at
o, -tangate Creek on the sth of July, 1825. We were in-
named that our quarantine would be 21 days. On the
nth, however, it was announced to ns that we should be
attained only ten days from that date. At this our un-
evicted good fortune, the health guardians, I could evi-
-1 dently perceive, were very much disappointed, as well as
extremely annoyed, at the changes which had recently
taken *De her the quarantine regulations, which they feared
Y would Mad to the total abolition of the system. IVe were
tartlet-ad to send part of our hacgage on board the qua:an-
Sine hulk, retaining our feather beds, and the necessary
-, articles of dress, although we could not, for our-part, see
4 fin what respects these articles, in point of dagger to the
public health, differed from each other ; nor was there any
distintstien made between the clean and soiled clothes, nor
Iliteween those from Alexandria and those from Gibraltar.
tome of the mats were also sent to the Lazaretto, whilst
Lupdreds of them were retained in the ship, to he landed
without purification in London. Another vessel arrived
• an the same day from Alexandria, laden with cotton and
I boned. The masters mutually visited each other, the
slither remaining in his boat alongside his friend's ;hip ;
, and thus they drank grog, handing the full and empty
to each other. At first the precaution of taking a
'CIiP7I: guardian in the boat of the visiter was practised,
bat latterly this ceremony was sometimes dispersed with.
Thus the regulations were infringed in the presence of the
guardians; and thew officers, seemingly without entertain-
ing much apprehension of contagion, or perhaps to counter-
, set it, participated in the enjoyment of the glass without
restraint. Paints and paint brushes, newspapers, &c. were
• .also sent freely from vessel to vessel. I do not say that
them was any danger in this freedom; the absurdity ap-
gears to consist in imposing any restrictions at all, especi-
ally on a vessel which bad been 98 days on the passage
from Alexandria to Stangatc Creek.
Out baggage was peremptorily ordered to be sent to the
Lazareuo, and we.received an assurance from the super-
Edant that it would be restored to us on the release of
ship. Bat on the 15th, three days previous to our
tion, we were informed that as the baggage of another
ihip, which had two days more of quarantine to serve, had
been put on board the same hulk with ours, we could not
receive it until that ship had also finished her quarantine;
consequently, we must either retain two days longer for
our baggage, or incur the expense,. risk, and inconvenience
cf having it trananitte by a lighter. The vessel in ques-
tion bad arrived on the same day wi:h our own, but too
late to transmit the intelligence by post to London, so that
the diffirrence of a few minutes as to the period of arrival
may make the difference of two days in the period of re-
/ease, and this although the ship last arrived may have
been tke first to have left Alexandria. This detention of
baggage was therefore not only preposterous, but arbitrary
and even wanton. The Captain in vain remonstrated. He
stated that his crew and passengers were destitute of wear-
ing apparel, having only the suits which they had in im-
Imediate use. This was particularly hard on the sailors,
i who ate discharged on their arrival in London ; and in
this case, as they were mostly natives of Liverpool and its
ntighlx,nrhood, to which they wished to return, they were
obliged either to depart without their clothes, or to wait in
London spending their hard-earned wages, until it should
(Anse die owner of the ship to send for their luggage.
On the day of our release we were visited by the Saper-
intendant, who demanded his customary fee, as he said,
for commission. It is reported that he expects a guinea
per mast for his attentions in supplying the incarcerated
with provisions, &c. He was referred to the broker, who
lie was told would comply with his request, if it was
proper. It is rather unfortunate that the persons who are
shut up in quarantine iu this wretched creek should not be
able to depend upon being supplied with articles of sub-
sistence of the best quality, although an extravagant price
i is charged. It was said that the Superintendent, whose
duty it is to see that the articles supplied are of a good
quality, and at a reasonable price, is the person who bene-
fits by the supply of these articles, at a profit said to be
corrmous. During the first six days, certainly, the milk
was good, and other articles proportional; for the last four
it was sour, and watered ; the bread stale, the fruit bad,
0 the meat unfit for use after the first or second day, having
born killed many days before. As there is no efficient
control, it would be well if passengers were more fre-
quently to give an account of their treatment in quarantine.
The quarantine establishment at Stangate Creek con-
sists of one guard-ship, one hospital-ship, in which there
• Ms never been a sick person, and five large hulks, which
And bet-a either seventy-fours or tbree-deckers, with about
Ito persons, who may be almost saitl to be idlers. Mr
Saunders, the Superintendant, resides at a distance of 15
miles from the Creek ; and Mr. Dixon, the second in office,
rit the distance of about 10 : there are two doctors, both of
whom reside in the interior, making occasional but not daily
riots.

DEirzRATZ OCTRAGE.-013 Thursday evening, between
Ilk end seven o'clock, Webster, the gaoler of Mary-la-
berme police-oice, was atta:ked and nearly murdered, in
Tottenham-court-road. He '.tad deposited several prisoners
in Clerkenwell prison, and was returning towards the office,
.nil when at the end of Tottenham-street, a tall, powerful-
liiniciug man came up to hint, and said, " Is ?our name
Webster; don't you belong to the police-office?' Webster
answered in the affirmative. The stranger then looked
teund, and coming close up to the officer, said, " I have
'allowed you some time, knowing you to be the same."
Webster, rather 'surprised, looked in the man's face, and
instantly recognised him to be a desperate smuggler named
Adkin, whom he had four years since apprehended on the
sassfor smuggling, and an attack upon some of the re-
venue officers, for which the fellow was sentenced to im-
prisocment. The moment he found himself recognized,
the radian said. " I will now be revenged, you d—d in-
lensing rascal," and, seizing Webster by the throat, dash-
ed him to the earth. Webster, as soon as he could get
upon his feet, grasped the fellow's collar, calling out to se-
veral persons, who had assembled, to assist him in the King's
name ; but the !titian swore in the most horrible manner
that he would kill the first that dared to interfere, and
gain dashed the unfortunate 'Webster- to the earth, and
beat him in a dreadful manner, leaving him on the ground
11111406 L lifeleas. Although above one hundred persons were
assembled, not one interfered in any way, nor attempted to:
moire the miscreant. Webster was removed into a shop'
by two gentlemen who caine up, and his wounds being
deamed, he recovered his senses, and attended at Mary-la-
home office before Mr. Griffisit) who hes directed a most,
active pursuit.
Para'. ACCIDENT.—On Saturday morning last, about
ton o'clock, as Mr. Jonathan Flower, of Downham-market,
in the county of Norfolk, builder, was leaving home in his
jg
, drawn by a young spirited horse, he suddenly started
aillr with the most furious and ungovernable impetuosity,
Mr. Flower having scarcely seated himself ; and, in dash-
through the town, the gig unfortunately knocked down
Itr,. George White, of Wilusbothem, near Downham, a
sopeotable, but infirm and nearly blind man, of the age of
ei yeaur, who was Imprieleetly walking on the middle of
the street or highway, when the off shaft entered his right
art", most dreadfully lacerating it to the shoulder, and the
Ighesi that
over him, he was so miserably wounded and
hajtiW that he expired the following day. Mr. Flower
was is the most imminent peril of coining in contact with
a tats .art then standing near the Castle Inn, in which
ease he must inevitably have been dashed to atoms ; hut
most providentially he just cleared it, and with great pre-
sence of mind rctatned his seat till he had the good for-
tune to get the mastery of the animal, and cheek his mad
sad desperate career, when about half a mile from Down-
hem, on the Lynn road. Mr. F., as may reasdnably be
suppeesti, is much distressed in mind at the lamentable
fate of the above poor old man, upon whose body an in-
*pleat was held on Monday last, when a verdict of " aesi
dastal death" was returned, with a deodand of ten abil-
legs upon the horse add gig, the former of which Mr.
}1...7-^r is dstermined to dispose of immediately.—Cost-1
4.44 e Chr.
itia Bee La BIT.—At Sarson, lately, a shepherd ob-
secy.& a hawk descend and pick up something with its
dews out of the grass, and rise again immediately, ascend-
to el considerable height 111 the air, when it suddenly
fez to die ground ;he ranto the spot and found the hawk
thud, but a stoat, which ha.l sucked its blued during its
aerial aseevision, made of into's bodge Ware it mild be'
kelhd .--Dursrt Chrentek.