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PROM TUE ALZIARDRIA EXPOSITOR.

We have just received the three firs: numbers of
the second herade, edited b 7 Drs. Mitchell and
Miller of New York, entitled The Nledical Re;ss'•
tory. In Or first of these numbers, we rind several
curious papers, among which is a case of very sin-
gular nervous affrAions, supposed to have been oc-
casioned by the bite of a Ti.rantula, by Dr. Com-
stock, of S. Kingston, Rhode Island. The patient
was a girl of about fifteen years of age, who was
slightly bitten by a large black spider, with very
shining black eyes. The symptoms at first :,-
sembled hysteric parneysms, combined with St:
Vitus's dance. As the disease progressed, an ex-
traordinary degree of sensibility was observed in
her feelings, and it was judged that she possessed an
inclination for music, by her movements w ith her hands
and gingers, when in her fits; after a tune, and when
music was introduced,her motions corresponded; she
beating with hands and finger ends upon her breast,
in imitation of dancing. Medicine having faded,
music became its substitute, and was the only thing
which moderated her violent and distressing spasms
It was on the f-mtieth day of her disease, that the
reporter first visited her : she then followed with her
hands a tune sung by some young women, though
to all other sounds she appeared as insensible as
in manner inanimate. Atter remaining in this state
about an hour, the fit began to abate, and she be-
came able to regulate her hands, and to speak,
though isidistinCtly. But, what is most extraordi-
nary, that, although her eyes had not been open.
by feeling only she accurately told the colour of
disrerent garments. This faculty she so eminently
possessed, as to be able to point out the different
colours in one piece of cloth. and discover different
materials when woven into one piece. Nay, more
exquisite still was this sensation ; for, after feelinz
a hand some minutes with attention, she would ai.
terwards tell the things that had been held in it.
In her fits, she could -middy distinguish her rela-
tions by the touch, to all of whom she manifested
uncommon aversion. None of them could touch
her when labouring under them, without increasing
their violence ; and it was said she could tell whe-
ther her father was in the room& though ever so dark.
The next time the deg .r sid:ed per, he observed
a surprising acuteness in ens. 1t..1-e of smell. Es-
sence of lemon she was very fond of. She drew in
its scent by an incessant and convulsive kind of
spasm. It was afterwards carried out of the room,
and she, with her eyes shut, directed her head to-
wards the door the person went out at, still snuff-
ing. As she emerged from her fits, she discovered
a remarkable partiality for certain colours, and
aversion for calms. Green and red were among
the former; white and black, wall their mixtures,
among the latter. The agreeiede colours produced
a convulsive kind of Itughter, from the ethos she
would turn with seeming horror.
These fits continued at irregular intervals for
about eight months. She was selzed with a pain in
the hand bitten by the .pider, and tile spot became
red and morCia-sl. Tile diseased part sloughed off,
and discharged an unusual kin.l of matter. The
fits abated the discharge S...gart, and for the
last five months th.-re 11J no return of them.
There are severa, .oter cur.cu.T. !aft& rela-
tive to this uncommon hut our limirs prevent
longer extrafts. It may, Loss ever, be proper to ob-
serve, that curious cases would praducelittle bene-
fit, it Fraaic4 cznaisi not be adduced.

COURT OF C:f NC F. RY, Auu

EX PArtrs MARGARET T EMkNNIVILI.O AND (Villa-
LIN 7: TIIOMAS DE lIIANNZVILLE, AN INt ANT, CV

HER myAr waiter%
The further concidernion of this cause came on
this morning, and it WAS ordered by the Loan
Co Am. t Lima to berg.: red to the Master to approve
of security to be entered into before him, th.tt the
child wili not be removed out of the jurisdiCtion of
the Curt; and to enquire and report what fortune
the child is now, or may hereafter he entitled unto;
and further to enquire and report, bow far either.
and which of the parents is capable of maintaining
and educating the child, and whether either, and.
which of them would be a proper person to have tl..e
future care of it.

An accident happened at Middleton, between
Kirby Lansdale and Sedbergb, on Saturday last :
A father and two sons, named JAMEs, JOHN, anrf
THOXAS Ms TCA Let. were unfortunately drowned.
in consequence of one of the sons getting nut of hi:
depth, s,!. at bathing in the river; and the otheri
lo,t their in endeavouring to assist him. •Ilse
mother was a witness of this distressing scene.
The increasing attradion of the admirable Per-
formances at the RovAi Cleans is peculiarly
worthy of our notice. They comprise a boundless
vatiety of interesting, entertaining. and novel mat-
ter. In p macular, the (*.rand Spedacle of .1q-
NANNA or SURINA H, which exceeds, for interest.
any composition of the like specie, the Stage ever
produced.
Mtont.rsec FAA:cm:is: -.Every day affords fresh
proofs of the conspiracy to rob the Freeholders of
1,11;,, county of their eledive rights. A man offered
to poll for Sir FRANCIS BuiIDIITT ilt the name of
Joins CARTER, whose real name was Woos. He was
a tailor, has been in the Royal Westminster and
Surrey Militia, from bath which regiments Ise had
polled once, it not oftener, at this eleaion. fir
was oslefted to on behalf of Mx. MA INWASING,
anal brought to the Sheriff's box; he was there told,
that these fads were known, but, if he chose to take
the oaths, he might; die man nand with due citation
and ran away. Sir FRANCIS Bueotrr's agents
will, no doubt, find out, that this man was sabot fled
by Mr. MAINWARING. Sir FRANC/: 13%/ROSTTWAII
yesterday apprised of the pmcezdings to secure
his return ; he was informed that Committees were
sitting in different parts of the town. for the fabri-
cation of votes ; that tickets .were delivered to the
voters for the purpose of giving their votes the
semblance of legality; that these tickets entitled
the bearer, on demand, to the wages of his per-
jury, if the poll correesponded with there tickets—
Sir FRANCIS observed, that irregularities would
Irappm on both sides.

A report has prevailed, but we believe it to be
one of those vain rumours daily circulated as predic-
tive of the triumph of Sir Fewness Bo RAIITT. It
is said, that a large number of voters of that loyal
and inoffensive body usually denominated Qoakers,
are kept biclt by him as a corps de maw.% to be
Inotiert up on the Last day, in a coop de mem, to
recurs the rne.tion. It is impossible to believe that
those unassuming ft iends of good order and peace
under Livery establishment, should at all give their
support to Sir FRANCIS BORDif T. It if impossible
to conceive that they should become the subjeas of
art and owning, to promote sinister and teelei.eif
views. It is a defamation. which even their
I spirit can hardly forbear to resent, to be charged
with affording support to the Friend of a liebel—
seceder from their faith and praFfice--to the boasted
associate of a man who has irreligiously ridiculed
those simple tenets of their profession, which almost
all men admired andapproved—of THOMAS PAINE.
who declared War (to use his own words) 4, against
the :-.401t hell of Monarchy," but whose intimacy, i:
is well known, Sir FRANCIS courted at Paris, and
with whom he thonght it one of his greatest honors
to have forried an indelible acquaintance.
MILL.—One of the Trustees of the
Islneonh %lilt presented himself to vote at Brenf-
ford reterd y. He stated that the Premises were
vested' in twenty Trusters; that they were worth a
rent of two hundred guineas; but that when the
trades of miller and baker were exercised there,
each Proprietor of a share received four loaves per
week, at I Id. under the assize price. The number
of shares was six hundred, and the individual claim-
ing to vote held three of those shore.
the ohjeetion was, that he was not posiessed of
an estate of forty shillings a year arising out of the
freehold to his own use, and could not therefore
with propriety take the Freeholder's oath. It was
a..;reed on ;:11 hands, that the firofits arising from the
trade can icd on were out of the question. On the
part of the Voter, Mr. CLIFFORD maintained, that
having a legal and equitable interest in the estate
in question to his own use, and the use of others,
he was entitled to vote, though his own share in the
property was not forty shiliiags. The COMMON
SIIIJE %NS, who is Assessor, declared that in his
opinion, the -flan was intitled to vote, if he chose to
take the oath ; but that he himself would not take
such an eath for thousand of worlds, and one of the
Sheriffs declared that the man had so mare right to
vote than his servant.
Mr. CAURTIIU?'". contended, that if in any case
the Hiltf II r co•aid be justified in refusing to permit
a man to perjure himself, it must be in such a case
as this, where it appeared by his own statement, that
his share in the property amounted only to tvrentr.-
one shillings a-year, and not forty shillings. Ka
was proceeding to address some very forcible and
pertinent observations to the voter, on the nature of
the crime he was going to cammit ; when he was in•
terrupted by
Mr. CL irro an, who said, such observations were
disorderly, an .1 that he would take the oath him-
self in the cam- situation.

The Co !a tsoN Ss antayir said, that if the maa
before him tool• the Freeholder's oath, and he al-
terv.ards hirn offer his sath in any Court of
Jusece, lie should think it his duty to state on oath
to that Court, that that man was not fit to be be-
lieved, but that yet he was legally entitled to swear
if he chose it.
The Sheriffs allowed the voter to tender his' vo'e
for Sir Francis Burdett, so as not to prelude
right, but not to take the oaths, or alter the num-
b‘rs on thl poll.
A man afterwards was allowed to vote who held
sever. shares.

NAVAL INTELLIGINCE.

PU Tsltot. IN, At G. 1.

. -
This morning sailed the P,osicro, of 16 guns,
Capt. Jonc,, on a cruise ; Rlnzvr, of Iti • guns,
Capt. Coute, with a convoy for Newfoundland ; and
the Smile:let/ brig. Lieut. Robertson, en a cruise off
the back 4i the Wight.
The Glory, of 98 gnnc, Captain G. Martin, is
ordered to join the Channel fleet; amidst Plato, of
16 guns, Captaia Ja werin, the squadron off Havre.
The Honourable Captain King will go pagsenger
in the Mt ~ to take the command of the
Remain at Spithead and in the harbour, the fol-
lowing effeelive ships: Glory, Dryad, Orfrbent, Pbea.
sant, Pl.do, Epercier, Chicks/kr, Ville de Paris (in
dock), :liar, Defiance, Calenia, 11 yJr3,
Trawls, Alow.e, and Penguin.
Arrived the Marv, l'oulston, from Riga : and
the Kill G. orge cutter, with the Travem, Saun-
ders ; and the /mist, hound to the East Indies ;
and several other outward-bound vessels under con-
voy from the Downs. Wind \V N.W.
rstmourit, JULY 30.

Sailed the .t.trkhrnd packet, Captain Schuyler,
with a mail for Lisbon; and the American hi ig
Triton, Capt. Nickells, fur Copenhagen. Wind
N. •

DEAL, ALGUST 1.

Arrived tlq. mod, revenue cutter, with a con-
voy from the :%:.-t,'lv•ard, and which remain. The
has sailed :tgain for thy River.
Arrived t;le Leda, frigate, from off Boulogne ;
Athr. Ftin-vessel, from Sheerness; and the William,
store ship, I,:orn the river; and remain iit the Downs
with the ships as per last. Wind N.E.

IPSWICH

JLLI.:.:I.

There was a grand Brigade Field Day this morn-
ing, on Rushmere I teeth, of the several regiments
qualtered here. About half past nine o'clock, the
battalio:is were formed in close colnnins on toe Heath,
and on the arrival of Lord Charles Fitzroy, the Com-
manding General, opened out into open columns
from the rear, and wheeled into line. The first
Brigado, under the immediate command of his
Lordship, consisting of the Royal Westminster,
North York, and West :Suffolk i-egiments, Advanced.
and having taken a position in front, kept up a brisk
fire, and then retired by alternate battalions covered
by the North York Rifle corps, which was extended
in the rear, while the second Brigade, consist* of
the Royal East Middlesex and Fiteshire Regiments,
commanded by Colonel Wood, in the absence of
Brigadier General Paget, advanced to cover the re-
tiring columns, and having fired independently from
the right of companies, setiresi in its tarn by open
columns of companies, while the light troops and the
battalions guns trim the 'Tanks of the brigades covers.
ed rti, etreat. After which both lines .Nere formed,
and having taken open order, presented a royal sa-
lute,preparatny to the reception of His Royal High-
ness the Commander in thief The di:Ferent regi-
ments then marched by the General in open order,
and left the field for their respeltive quartets. The
day was uncommon's. :1..., and attraard crowds of
. spettators ; amonr rsht.nt wc distinguished Lord tout
Lady Paget. Lady Charles Funny, Lady Caroline
wood, &c.
The following orders: have just arrived, in conse-
quence of which ehe troops (pant:red here expel to
march in the coarse of a few days for Ho:den-heath,
to be ancamp,:d there.
Mr Luau. Colchester' 22d July, 1804.
I an. die-cted by Lieutenant-Ge,...rel Sirj.owa !o

sir; that your L0r0.,-1, 101 he ple-J,:d Monter all, the regontnts
under your command to hold themselves In readiness t. Man It
nil the thartem oohee. All dcherrneiesof camp equip.ge to be
reported huntediate:• .
1 have the honour
H. M. GORDON, A. A. G.
Major. Geo. Lord ei,3rioni Fitzroy, &c.

I rivigh, you know, is a burgage tenure borough, in
which the family of Cavendi,h have considerable
interest; whose hberality to the poor has been fre..
Lqu 't ently witnessed ; and on raising the Volunteer
Corps, the I)6ke at Dtvutisuiss very haadsornely
subscribed 2001."

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By His MAJUIV'S ship Caretina' lardy art ived
from New South Wales, dispatches have bi reeeiv.
ed from Lieutenant Governor Cot. t. Isis, dated in
March last, stating, that on his arrival at Port
Phillip, he found it destitute of every requisite for
establishii g a colony I he, therefore, re-embarked
his people, and proceeded to Sullivan Cove, on
the Derwent River, Vandieman's Land, where he
again disembarked; and Ending a situation which
promised to answer every expetlation, he formed a
settlement on a spot to which he had given the
Dame of Sullivan Town. The aeutenant Governor
speaks in the highest terms of the soil, the goodness
and ph ..ty of the water, and the beauty of: the sue-
r aniding count. y. Fish and game, he adds, are in
tolerable abundance. The natives are by ao
numerous, and appear to be very inoffensive.
Admiral Russel t. is expelled to sail in a few da) a
lelteve Admiral 'llsoatisokouoit who has been
off the Texel since the middle of December.
Prince WILLIAM of Cif OUCLSTFR is gone to pass
the present week with Sir .lona Letct.sree, of
Tahley-house, in Cheshire, from whence his Royal
Highness will honour Knutsfnrd Races with his pre-
. sense, which commenced on Tuesday.
Extra& of a Letter from Knaredsorough, July 30.
44 This waiving was fixed for the ilc:tinn of a Mem-
ber of Parliament for this town, in Cie room of the
Hon. W. CAVANDISM. About eleven o'clock the
Bailiffs, attended by Sir J. I et. t Lay. and two other
magistrates,togetherwith a n miler tif constables, pro-
ceeded towards the l ion Raoni where the elretions
arc held; and, on their arrival there, they fruad a
•sty large mob of people assembled, who had taken
possesion of the stairs to the Court Room, so that it
was impossible for the Bailiffs to get into the same.
This mob was headed by an attorney, sup-
ported by an officer and several volunteers of the
town, who insulted and pelted the magistrates and
one of the returning officers, took the staves from
the constables, knocked them down, and also several
of the elecgoes, and destroyed their clothes. They
dragged one of the constables to tkw water-aide,
ar.d- threatened to drown him. The Bailiffs
and Isfagistraws, finding it impossible to get into the
Court Room, returned home, and, we unclenand,
have made a special return of those proceedings to
the Sheriff, which, I suppose, will be laid before Par-
liament and th.: Courts of Justice. A more flagrant
violation of election was never witnessed. This bo-