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REFLECTIONS
On the Yellow Mei:se being both a dintss,* of import;
end of domestic origin; in a Litter Gorr Simeon H,
.t q., to Dr. fslitebill.
Norwich, August
Hon. S. L. Myren! Lt. —Sir, again Molt th
son for fever is urrivetl, and the solicitude of
sends is exeitej. The weightiness of the s
induces tne to transmit you some frets relate,
Here, and in this vieiuity, in titnes part, the
cilia! pert-of whoa), were aithio •ovu
ledge; sod the others were from good authoril
Otte elope, by. me, wel&noted, 1 shall alsit add
iliferences 1 have hum thence drawn, by whit.
wrjl sprat. (if cameo) that to pie-seise el fro= ale
tastroductooti and spre-ad, much depeuds upqn 011
SeIVE4"; and that 'it is possible for its to generate, box,
and bole it ; send' to Constantinople ; and, fur aught
we know, spread among the good Nlussillinen the
hue Plavie, though prohalaly not at first. 1 wonder
if from Havrnorh, through the medium of Cadiz, or
Ceuta, the yellow fever was ever introduced Iwo
Barbary ; and if so, bow it Progressed and elided ?
1 should be gratified to hero. That the cousin u -
lions of that ',wide should nssitnil•te it thereto, is
probable. Fray, is there any record, if, Ili ',minim,
it at any period assumed any thing of that type?
I should deem these inquiries Important. But to the
facts.
In the year 1798, New London was most severely
scourged with malignant fever. A passenger lodged
sr a tavern, and without causing much alarm, died.
The innkeeper, who was a high Mason (estqae term
it), soon fell sick and died. A pared( Alf the fu-
neral in their form, made delay neeessaly : the
corpse was kept too long—this circumstance wan
probably the sole cause of the greet calatulty that
ensued.
Among those who came front the viciaity to see
the show, was an elderly lady, ao aunt of aloe ;
she returned, and soon died. From her it did not
communicate to any one. New London' suffered
severely; many of its most valuable citiactut fell its
victims. Among them was one, who, on the first
symptoms, took close (jointers at an inn in Mont-
ville. One of our physicians was tailed : the pa-
tient died. The physician took it, and also died
in the midst of his flmlly ; from him none caught it,
At a small place about 20 miler. &out this lived
a poor widow with several daughtets, to wilmit "J,
returned, by the Captain of a vessel, the chest of a
son and brother, whose death, in the NVest
had caused uo alarm. T)ve. cheat. Was °petard. the:
clot-heti vsashed, and the family 41 died. gii;varril
rapidly—a great mortality rowed.
A' vessel :skived 'Fate' from Demerara, with •
sickness en board. Her cargo, eoisisiiag-- tarttly
sof ,votfee; "SslAital •ima
board to think putsch (winch was eastomary for the
master to give) look the fever, sod died to a few
days: one,-a young man, and near neighbour; his
family mere particular ita the asticie of demili-
tarise; they were, as we heresay, as Dent as wax. I was
often io ; sotbieg, could be kept mdre trice than iris
chamber was; he died in s few 'days. It was not
sonsmueicased to any one of the 'faintly ; although
one,' youor man, was the only nurse; oral did all
theasenial ;Sees. Yet a -man, who, front three
miles distance, wasfrocured to wash after the de-
ceased; hadoicarcely finished, when my horse and
chair were called fur to take •him home, lie died
within twenty-four hours. •
A country alergymasi, at evening, visited a house
That was situated un a prujscon, within a few rods
of lltis cope vessel; he returned pest day, and was
deed,iu a few days ; 'mile caught it,froin Jinn. It
was remarked that he arose curly, sod walked in
the garden, nest the vessel. A black woman iii
the house also died. A blacksmith, whose shop
stood at some distance, and fronrihg a kind of
avenue that led from the vested, on early riser,
and early at work, was sakrii ,sick, and soon
died. These instances suffice to [hake the dis-
ease of foreign origin. The following skews it
to he of domestic : A vessel, built here in slim-
mer, from green timber. was launched from a
steep place; in hei plunge, she shipped much
water, so as to be what the sailors term " water-
logged ;" she was suffered to lie some weeks 'with
closed doors and hatches. The joiner, with two or
three men, Creed her from water, and cominenced
their work. They all sickened directly, and soon
died with the highest symptoms of malignant fever.
A woman, living in a new house, from the cellar of
which mimed, iii the wet season, so niuch water as
to make a plank flooriag moessary, drained her
.ceHar in Angust ; she sickened immediately, sod
died within 24 hours with the highest possible
symptoms of the fever ; this was a next-door neigh-
bour (VW also. Her shrieks at eveiting, reverbe-
rating from bill to hill, by winch our W.Lee is nearly
surrounded, so mechanically affected our citizens,
that the place became utmost depopulated the next
day.
Another case t particelarly noticed (for we have
repeatedly had the fever fuming us). A boy was
returned from Long Island to his parents, sick with
yellow fever: he died. His parents were poor, and
lived in a little iseighbourhood surrounded with
hilly: they lisd not the means to he as climily as
could have been wished. It spread around the
little vale, and, including the lad's father and
mother, revel' soon died in a very smell
'Chi. was imported ; but spread from local causes,
and particular circumstances.
Not so another case. A brother-in-law of mine,
a ship, or packettnaster, in 1803, caught the lever
ill Coffee-house Slip in New York, where several
died in the shipping mound him. He was some
unwell when he arrived in the evening; the next day
at I I o'clock. a. m. was dead. Two oth'er Af the
crew had fimillea in different parts of thelllsee ;
they soon died, as did all that belonged•o the yes-
sel. It was nut cominnuicated to any one tif their
fa:tidiest- yet, 'feral the' vessel which lay Helga the
place, it. coruttionicseetf to the shiireamodsite. bud
.vualberi 13 a 11:tle neighbourhood died. Other

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that its partiestlortuoditications of ;natter, biota sw-
indle: (Of rather that which. had been animated), and
iitairrinate, the seeds of destruction are found which
if, generally conceded; hence we 'take great care to
remove putti,l carcioiset and heaps of decaying vege-
tables, &c. ; lid SVI). lout attrtul to the immesh:4,e
cleansing of the body, rod beri.lmen of such per-
.sons as shall 1.1 one night, or even a few hours, add
to the weight of such articles ouiices or Pounds of
morbid matter ? Is it 1101. from this source that
gaol leer's, probably, wiginute I Why is it that
in 'Alai's it is often found Neither beaver nor
musk-rat die with yellow fever; and although they
sweat out (as I think), yet they have a•cortespoud-
ing action : they throw off, aril the closeness of
their, fur (which keeps their skin from wetting
while owlet water, as sloes the for seal) affords as
site a repository as respect' the wind's influetiee in
dispersing the depa sic, as the traveller's trunk, the
dead mason's coffiii, the sailor's chest, Sic. And
this reminds; pie of a neighbour of mine, and of my
then age.-a hatter, who, from the cutting a pack-
age of musk-rat, that calne from the northward
(though 1 believe via New York), war taken sud-
denly ill, and died in a very short lime, with the
strongest symptoms of malignsot fever? mid the
only case that season. .I 'Janet believe the rails were
more unhealthy at their skinning than the gross man
was at his shirting ; and had lets clothes lain longer,
probably the wives would have beau more suddenly
and violently attacked.
. This last case brings to mind the account which
old Dr. Mead gives of the plague in Marseilles.—
(I wonder if, in those days and countries, they used
_skids fit baldr
ofl4llg.•.kt.447trcharli exhibited nothing
eacra tot rale4boso olusltlirrotinded •
felt irnmediatetyatldriie no !are ; rind that those
Allibierne first to vie what was the Justirthi ptAkit
441 post an itoitant dsatsh. • It -hiffatirli Mier
and that devotid city boat sixty thousand inhabit-
ants in a short time... This kisser was taken ill on
the spot : that 1 will remember. Dr. itlead's
account I have not area "ince a sehool-bo), mud
depend entirely on memory fur the corrector's of
the relation. You doubtless have it, and its it will
be found sufficient-fur my argument.
I Irate to astrologers, Ice. to make use of the
stars and planets,(raherwite than its the creation of
heat and exhalation) in the production of yellow
fever, by poisoning the air. I shall confine myself,
simply, to the modification of earth stud water, by
tire or heat, fur the -production of the same eff,cts.
For bow a general state of imperceptible atmo-
spheric ialuences should produce .tir same afros
in a Russian winter, and fin Egyptian summer,
caonot comprehend. Yei it is said that on the
plains of Russia, its' winter,. were greater ravages
by plague committed tilers'-on the Barbary or Le-
vantitie shores its summer. (,1 particular account
thereof I have out seen; I may be in error.) Now,
considering, that the laws relating to the gesirratutg,
spreading, or checking diseases of this nature, must
he uniform in all countries, the ci,euurstance of the
disease assuming its those high latitudes, and in
that season, such an increased degree of virulence,
at lirst appears extraordinary ; yet, when we con-
sider that in winter the dwellings of the Russian
peasantry area kind of under-ground hovels (called
Bagelons, I think), which are of necessity Incased
by the deep frosts, which prevent that kindly opera-
tint) or old mother earth in that awion we call ab-
sorption, our wonder ceases; and we may rationally
conclude that in summer the evil would have been
less, tier then I believe they change their residences;
bat if not, the absorption of the earth unrestricted
would have great affect, and their doors open snore;
hot now, although well heated by fire,•yet the frost
would approath very near, and leave mother earth
its the situation of the stevedores. in a ship'a hold,
to whom the sailors pass loading faster than they
can s'ow it away. From all which I infer that the
seed is-found in particular modifications of matter,
animal or vegetable., if then cordiued from sir,
and secured Prom the son's influence, especially in
a humid state, and id time of great heat,' its gene-
rative powers will be called rapidly into action.
Ilence, the danger of re-occupying your houses
that have oil abandonmeut, been closed up iu tone
of fever ; and which list proved fatal. iii some in-
stances, though the return was late in the season.
The evil is embryo %;18 shut op to geaerste, and
acquired far greater powers. littice also, in saute
stilt hooter in the West bodies, decaying vegetables
(especially coffee), by the agency of ltrat, soon ac-
cumulates vast quantities of infectious matter, or,
rather, perhaps, autuberlesa myriads of mortal 41111-
ma I cu

So in a traveller's trunk, from which the inn-
keeper received his baue—so in the •coffin that, in
New London, incases the dead nevem—ruin a dose
room in Montville, in which is packed the body and
bed linen (accumulated in an ecessiveslegreNiat
consequence of tfie disorder attending a removiti of
sifamilrfrom New London), untler the bed of one
sick and dyitig thereon—so in the chest of thy sit'tlor,
lor, where lies Ns ctuthes enclosed durino
thy length' of which iiiercast•s 'the evil and that
constilutts the thittrence between the diets vu the

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tanned with morbid sweat; or„ if in Alexandria,
torseots was contained that rendered the
whole highly lottuid.—(l say evil in embryo, for if,
as mature, its effects on the Levaisters that perished,
would have brew as fatal, or toonly so, as-to the
that uninicirt.•!; and as (Asa In those
oho packed die sailor's cheat in the West Indies, I
as to the hapless widow, family, and neighbourhood,
iu Coonectscut)—oo with the muskrat skins taken
in Casolia—so with whatavre first introduced it
into a Roman Bowdon, %here, from the kindly
syinitaitneit of the Piatplr, srun-loarbarous, it fast
spread from hovel to hovel ; or if lltissism cities were
infected, it was mused by their eloped doors and
'fbey shut the evil in with themselves, while
the more wise Egyptisioss (wise in this respect,
iltiough the ex petienceof ages), shot it out, and them-
Selves in: this accounts fur the few windows and
doors which an Egyptian city exhibits, that so much
astonishes Euroiwasi travrlttra. It affords them fit-
cthttrs shutting out the evil. It was not always
so : Egyptians liked air as well as other people;
and once had airy 'natant:is. Experience bus
brought them to it. It is not a sufficient answer to
say, their houses are terraced : ithey can't always be
oo the house-top. Nor does the structure of their
houses forbid the free use of windows. The Egyp-
tian practice 1 have myself followed. I have twice.
been left alone in time of fever, sive by a very old
couple.. who lived opposite. My practise was to
close doors and windows before sunset. and keep
my family in, nor till the suit was well up were they
°pealed. Believing that the heated laud, constantly
,at tught,getuly drew—(this is not philorophical)—
permilted,the colder air from the water to rush in,
although/ imprrerptihly, in columns more or less
dense, sod freighted with the evil. from the wharves..
docks, &e. which crowd the death of the black-
suaati up the aretafitc4—AmiLtAx—iiste tiXiag or
tiling clergyman, whoa from the century for
a night, visits d his friend. SO, from your slips,
those houses most projecting would probably be
most aff cted. These reasons I offered to a friend
'in New Pork, some years past. fie took me to
Old Slip. I believe (or seine southern one), and •
pointed to a projecting house .at some distance up,
which he said had been more severely visited several
times titan any other in the city.. In fact, from
your slips, those houses that are laterally situated,
are, as I imagine, moue sale than those that from
gelierally ; yet, (rem the situation of doors, %Midtown,
&c. suctions may be formed that would divert the
natural course of the esti.

Some years past, I was in Boston, when an ac-
count of the breaking forth of fever in your city
armed. I returned iti company with several gen-
tlemen, who were hurrying home ; the rooms and
offices of three-or four 1.. y in the midst of the 'dim-
ger. One, a young physician, *drifted to make
their entry its the cool of the Hight. I contended
fur a bright Goon-day nut, which was adopted with
success ; and possibly it might have been success-
ful if at night; yet the idea I think correct. Your
quarantine regulation., if must tigidly enforced,
will do much to secure you ; still, from your
wooden wharves (which sfrottld to at least half-tide
be replaced with stone), you are liable ; for, within
these delft recesses, souse places will retain water
till it becomes staguant (thick of the new vessel
litre); and it will be engendered -at your own
doors ; also, the dwellings of the poor shoufrl be at-
tended. and not only well ventilated, but well and
thoroughly fumigated, as you smoke nut rats crow
ships. Wheu it shall unfortunately appear, trace
it to its source ; fellatMe every body, and fence
up. As for those who by accident are exposed
and take it. let them live, or die at home. Your
practice of hurrying to hospital the seeming
sick, and to the grave the seemilig dead, is (par-
Jou rue), as appears to tne, birbarous, and, I thiuk
unnecessary ; at least. among those who base
the means to be properly attended ; and to those
who have not. humanity, I should suppose, iii your
opulent city, would Afford the means; for it is well
known how absolutely necessary quiet and inaction
is to those who are labouring tinder the first attack of
any fever. You Call remove none whoSe fate will
but by that very act he sealed ; their just feats
prevents your knowledge of the first symptoms,
awl they all (lie ; and if in a dozers eases one (ex-
cept removed in a state of insensibility) should sur-
vive, I ►hould have no doubt his syniptoms west
niestakrn, and whist of sickness he had, the greater
part wits caused by his removal ; and not tooth
better is the file of those, who, whets attacked, to
avoid one mode of execution (us Andre wished)
choose another, and exile themselves ; their case is
no better, save that their minds are less affected.
Now I don't believe that while life remains, or rather
where Isie is, there danger. It was uut from the
particles that coristallttli the gross was, id tlic suo-
'tient villeu his wives became iufected, but from
particles that had constituted a part of him, but
now detached and dead, that the evil sprang from,
or originated in. I should dcetu•it an -act of less
lenient), to driisk the half pinr of black vomit,
stuukthg from the stomach of his patient, as did she
it g-sfornii6tell young physician in Philadelphia.
than to have taken a la.ti) tutu a de, k, ckic clu e',

cointriunfeatsd to thu.e who i.a:l
isms been ',wird like a rtlnifitsn,
IA • not have Suffeittf. t •nv
• .
generating and exttmwm ;.1
given atinosedlti'vervally n.::•e
ilwedriis the bock iiiid
,hie) should be it'll
suossuid. S. hose
_wietTrifilepti
' posinsfrul If:A/C/Ws) VINP!!!;:•.)
toe anti to dry, and thou washed. -1 terry ht;! se
that by adopting that method, I stopped ilnr re, s-
ges of a lever in a family who were usytenains. I!
which hail assumed a malignant type. In t
yellow fever was sounded, and tliOltiiit'se. ansi :ca
some meitsure the street, was avoided. I dittclt'l
three pounds of quick lime to be slacked in ant',
of water in the room where the !tidiest lay, and it.e
clothes often changed, immersed therein, and
spread•on the roof. They promised, and did not'
(:end se they will with you)—then I procured it li.o
self—(ts you must do)—aud then ik was follinne.f.
Alas! how few are in possession of their reason in
times of such c..lamitirs! at this lime the patirni's
life woo given over; she soon died. The preoc,
was but for the sick, so much as for those in
health.

No more was seen of fever, except in cite o'
sister, alto, through anxiety, iftl4 throtru into a
slight fever, abich, if of the same type, was much
reduced iii virulence; while in one other fain:,,
intimate. of this house, two or three died, and t!.e
fever went pretty much throughout. It is
liveable, that the first case. of fever in this heo•_,
was protracted to some weeks; the patient
ri-
corered: as it progressed, it increased in virulence.
It was remarked, their washing was not often done ;
that accounted for it ; when, if from such a sick acs,
any one should be infected. and taken to • cl.an
room and well attended, should die, ir•any
were iufr•cted, it would be hut slightly;
yellow fever brought from New Yotk urVie-
where, here in person only. if the patient' dies,
and due attection is paid to purificatitoll, it
ends: this was proved in case of my brother-
iu-law. The veytel which was infected tit-
below ; the sick came to their respective "14
lies; Mt died. None from then' task it brit ativ..
the inflicted vowel it commitincate4 to the rlipEt
belseN asmi numbers died; no awe can .bcrelft:i.?:ll,

point.
A friend of our family, a young man, arrived
from Ewa in en infected vessel: on the first ;p71;:.
totuy he was for going home—l prevented him.
Ile was placed in a spacious, airy chamber, with
northern and western uspects; was closely *needed,
his clothes often changed, and put into bud+ ,i• •
stuffily (this was before I thought of the hio..)
was very sick, but recovered in a short time.
thud be gone home, or removed any where, tar
should have lost a friend, and the world a vsludb;e
citizen.

THE KELD.UEN OF THE TYNE.

NEWCASTLE, OCTOBER 9.9.
The keelmen have now been a Aitooth etone!y
without employment, and, as yet, we can set ,to,
likelihood Of the existing differences between them
and the coal-owners being soon settled. . The r-•--
vents are still loud in their complaints of the lard-
ships they hare long laboured under, and their mus-
ters are equally resolute in resisting the invasion
their private property. _Considering the tel.titc
situation of the parties, we cannot conceive how the
conduct of the keelmen is capable ofjitstificrifton.
We do nut pretend that the agreement between
.;lie
employees abd the employed is of We must
description for the latter, but it is a calumet fur 4
veal.. and as such if ought undoubtedly by both IV
be held sacred. ft was not less dtsadvautageome !!:
January, when it was first entered on, than it ie tat
October. But it is urged in defence of their pro.
ceedings, that this, if ever, is she time for the Ite;1-
men to resist, because now their services are iu.the
greatest requi.ition. Instead or o defence, we con-
sider this rather en aggravation of their conduct.
For their own individual isltetests, it is tak,ng ;•o
undue, an ungenerous advantage of the situotion of
their employers. It is at once an acknowlerigis er.t
that they have acted wrong, suet a proof th..t the%
have not deserved the liberal treatment they
for themselves, yet deny to others in return ;*.•
should have fulfilled their engageturtsh,, at.c! ..“
made what agreement they thought
their future employment. The question
now not a matter of right but of streng:t.„
The point at issue is not on whose side just:er
but winch of the parties can dispense rungs t. wilh
the assistance of the other. On Wednesday last ao
intimation was received, that many of the keelmen
above bridge would go to work, it they might
the protection of the clad authorities. On liar,-
day morning, in consequence, the Mayor, xecoin-
palsied by ate adequate force, went up the river to
the Ttinity barge. but on their arrival it. teas dis-
covered that the keelinen had all divappeare.l, and
were dispersed over the country. No desire has
since been manifested to return to their employ-
ment, nor have we heard of any further I et ocia-
nuns between the ',allies. On Saturday a party et
the keelmeu assailed one of she steam boats with
showers of,stoires, %slide towing a vessel up the
river.
injury
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other Cl

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tionablv. you 11.nikuismy inure ite.purrit. T stroll 1;1 iihP4.6o oii, Muptrilic, after a Short tlirlis, When f Wll4 from particle/. di
here add hut one %hire case ; and‘for,thit ',tray is. ! only. tail tillysician canajat it—au with cofge, lying of his head, polluoik.
considered quite siain'nary ; yet, the supPpsOiou. I rest.lt Or Within it Sessers ccilibg during her passage producing cause.---(l
pnrlation think, may l; reale:4111)1y sustained. , ;•.
.c,.2.ggittleaasis from England, hiiignse:.illeni in Ma lion, peihopv, hook
Hubbard, A grotv. corpokiga. (Hsu, ~ inthipiloy. :whim„, 1 We't (mho, informed liar, ttist•Aroospprti' c.a." COlsrly.aititildtd to:
weight was lista/Liss three and &or:nearly' f.rur) i 4ing tit Uestis,!speciolli ilia cloneAdwile. %v..% (0a- pits cipal enure of s
e • 1811. hundred ; a great arth a gne.it drip ter q mean i in/lered highly. Usages/pus :he w4,,a. ma
nl.l 1.1...e..1 tuerly, Irons those rr!
the sot. n strong
trot stng drink).4ll-reat sweater : twit Ihtethwtsiv 1 uharlryttlitts..)—So with :the ci...htik,..iivturi,„ by the I in my opinion. Nisi
of Vont- :
in succetiioi, w-iit highly charged 4.yinpayang ; nice ttictily, wits over-aecured Irons. air-...lici with i pan will lied, were t
. slit:jeer of malignant fewer, owl humid( wall All live thine: sugiumt oi.Ui.-r cinntinoosi with isp.-sto-od ns the lie.. ' combed the hair.)
''"g' t'i•lt At length lie elan went the seine way:' la tab rases.
,vevvri---vo with the-clise crllits, will* Omit and 1-lid the dead maw
ie Prw- there was no en fier s parent way by wifie+h thos water is; ii.-so witlt Lit poolienille,v iii thelean- New I.otidenc would
know- . could have lievii infected; ye the ih.lr4 ;Besot be fluid sueightatuihood, *litre ths. seveu ilieidatooo I was given.•for • the g
sirup,sirup, at conniier.il, if not fr ' he slime snorer...al loot. as ,
*nit the vessel that lied. bran intlaft:.adiottmediip:-..,1 evil. 4airl•tione is I
'id "me far fete ell. tf.1•111.1r 'II I tare that, Iviv. verll- iko silt liar psaalerpua 'ckalwa at tioa.# a... 1 timid ligiilititleitorltil
which 'it saturated holy and elliviroutiQrsitt.olliciii • iir girtli that • asi deathrikt bill • 1 y err the ill ici. the wl
Pi, . . t 4/ P.Ol .. •.
Irellu its :venire close place • alieieul irate ti .- i • " - - mega
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Kin our- rate the evil. A/iv iv tint ?- . -----`•7 (nu awe Ha a pietas tat ti/ilit re
"te,"°•Et Front the forego:cl4 ...p,el4 it anticline conclubive, wear Done) or rottiethitig rise thuijell in. well ea* 1 the sun to dry, and
or audit .t. - - .• I - 1 .• - 1 . - . . .. .

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The men Mere obliged to go bi•low,*but Lc) t
was Ouotoined. Yesterday ruornoug. Aso, . /
derstund. eietur of the Philt•raCtOry trots said 3-
craft iwer% imetrupted irr theirprogreso down
lief. Th. 4 were two meetings luld berg yes-
, oat by the prorsctore of the eullittleo
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above t ?low bridge, which broke up without
coining tt any resolution.; the
other
wl.ll heldhr
large body of the Ittelmen, on the Vi'indiosill 1-11tht,
but the result appears to have effected tio change
their previdus determination. The coal owiterg
above bridge, we are informed, are very anxious to
come to some adjmitment, as they have been the
grealrsr sufferers by the btnip.ge; for, K. Ihry load
iro ships by spouts, they have no means of voiding
their coals without the asmhance of the keels.
With the collieries below-bridge the cam is con.
ciderably different : their chitf dependence is upon
tpouts; they are benefited to • cettain einem by
the distress of the coal owners above bodge, mid
though they suffor temporary incolivenience from
the keelmen continuing refractory, it is trot of so
scrim's a aster.. It firs justly excited surprise
how so numerous a body of men obtain sebaistence
for so great • period without employment. They
have not depended, it seem*, on the proration, pit-
tance they could extort from the hand of charity,
Imo have drawn liberally ea certain hoses or private
fonds belonging to their a iciety. They cannot I g
he mointained from these sources. and they would
art wisely for themselves to come to senor reason-
able arrangement while they may with drcenct.
The coal-owners, they must be well aiwaie, will
lover restrict the use or the spools to eight keels, in
opposition to their moot important isiltirrOo; and
when they are authorised by law to use them with-
out such hesitation. It is not to be concealed. that
the trade of this port has suffered from the com-
bination of the coal owners to resttict the vend, and
it is with sincere regret we observe that thirst pro-
eteilings of the keelineur have a tendency to do it
greater and more lasting injury by diverting it into
other channels.

The following is frdm a correspondent North
Shields:—

•• On Thursday about twenty semen were ap-
prebroded in Shields harbour, by Ile Mayor of
Newcastle, for tan% men out of die vessels that
'were going to be loaded at the spools, sod put on
-board of • King's caner tying off the S4"iil Encl.
low part of North Shields. A number of their
brethren assembled on the Sand on Friday. in ex-
pectation of seeing them liberated. About two
o'clock • troop of the 3d dragoon guar& and
Brandling's Northumberland Yeomanry Cavalry,
arrived at the spot, when much noise and altercation
took place, the tars demanding in loud terms the
relruse of the prisoners. %Viten their friends were
brought on shore ImodculTed„ they determined to •
man Inshore their fate, and 'recoil/ponied the guilt-
tary to Newcastle fur that purpose. The condition
of the seamen belonging to North and South Shields
is truly pitiable, • 11l ing chiefly from the failure of
the Gerendland fishery, in which trade not Irmo than
seven or eight hundred men ore engaged, who, when
successful. realised • suificient sum to maintain
themselves and families during the time the clubs
were suspended. whereas this year the better
have returned without a shilling. which, added to
the present stoppage, his seduced many families to
actual wartration.
A number of seamen arrived here on Friday
evening, and, when their brethren in custody were
lodged to the castle, they accompanied them to the
very g..te, and seemed anxious to follow them even
into confinement. The crowd assembled was truly
mimeos... The military were sit resilmem. and the
Mayor. spisrelwriding, we ruppcer, some attempt at
reverie, read the Itset Act. Ths, populace turn
rriletly di•perstd. Part of the seamen iniprimned
have since been committed to gaol. part have been
let out on bail, sad the 'mohair, hare beeu
discharged.