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POLICE.

'IOW num
A pauper of the omme of Waits su Saturday attended at
This Office, who had preelowsly summoned his father to ap.
pear berme the M•gistrate, to anawar to the charge of aul
assisting towards his (the pauper..) no.iuictiance.
Ii appeared th2t Wat:ii had been living fur two years in
the woo khanme of Covent.gartlen, but the parish olficrrehring
of opinion that he war able Its obtain hi. oust living if be
would elvrt hienseir (be being out, 3:r pars of age), turned
him out of the workhouse

The Magistrate exprissed a wish to are all the pastier
before be pve his drcisioa.

MEETINGS OP CREDITOR* AT GUILDHALL

TO-110110M.

-- M. R.
T. H. Rudkin, Islington, 'sultrier....
I'. Tinsou, E bow lame, anereheni....
N. Bliss, Water lane, primer 3 1
A.G. Davidson, late of Racquet-court, merchant 3 11
J. loan mad J.-H. Jones, Lambeth end Knit-road,
linemdrapers .... 3 li
M. Girdlestone, Norwich, baker
G. Pi creel, jun. late of West Malting, impute.
T. Playrair, New Rood-street, truuk-oiaker 2 10
J. Barnwell, Leamington Priors, carpenter 2 12
W. Higgs Strand, batter 2 II
J. Forsdick, late of Gower-place, builder 1 10
G. Hawley, late of Shadwall, ebrescauunger .. 1 10

IBBORT'III9S Tllll Wan domirrrEE
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4,i•oeselt hi.; 84 July, lOU. .e
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Thu Meet Committee appoieled T.
inquire isle the Ram-
blishioest of the Opthalmie Hospital in the Itemat's Park,
sad the Claims of air giHiaul Adams urea the Poblie ;
hare inquired into the smatters referred to them, sod have
agreed to the following Report
Whatever may have beisa the .figlu of lbe °Alba*" I.
lids country, that disorder appears to have beets greatly ha-
's:reseed in its prevaleuce, mod aggravated in its severity, in
cosset Bence of the iafectitio commissakated by our troops
'ipso their retool from Egypt; and is the years 1808 sod
aft, whik it approved to he gaining Ile00" •"*"1 the
general pspalatiou of dm reentry, its ravages in the army
*teem to have attracted the attestor, and to have excited
the alarm+ of the military depertmeats of the State.
Mr. Kate. the late Ilseeperao•Geoerel, is a letter sdelressed
to the Secretary at War, ors the oth of Alaimo, 1800, says—
" Having fatly oafish*/ myself of the contagious smears
'of the ophthalmia, I beg leave basobty to rammer'', that
the evils already produced by the disease, and the much
greater ones likely to eases, deserve the immediate and most
serious attention of his. Royal Highoese the Commander-in-
Chief, and of yourself, to devise woos not only fur arresting
its progress, but also, If possible, for mites sainsiirm it wholly
from the army. For until this be dose, there cam be uo secu-
rity against its being propagated so rapidly and criteria/rely,
auto rodent*, the public safely"
He Nether elates. "'flat the aamber of soldiers who have
bleu readered totally bliad by 11110 afection, slate its Miro.
drama in and from Egypt, enemies at present one thou.
mad. And be adds, "It is kairesiale not to eutertaie the
most disquieting apprehemione tempi/Mies the furore magma
abbe disorder." And he concludes by statism, *le each
Viresinlstsucee, it seems to me that es pains or expense likely
to be requisite fur eradicatiag this.roidagion, should be re-
garded as too great for that purpose; and I beg leave humbly
to suggest, for the deteresseatleit of his Royal Highness
and 'youreelf, *tenor it might not be proper to ocher
the investigation of the best versos of acebamplishiag this
haportint object, to a Booed spatially 'appointed for that
purpose,
utm and which Board easy assist of such members,
the'inembers of the Army Medical Board, as may be
deemed competent, by their attaioasesits and cape, iCeICO,
to so important as inquiry."
In a slibseqesent letter, dated 89th August 1808, after
inakiag some further observes's'', upon as instance of the
exec,' to which Ike disorder was the. spreading, be states;
" It will, I have no doubt,add great weight In the wind
iff his Poyid Hickson mot yourself, to the considerations
whin I hod the honour of soshatittiog Is my former letter,
relative la the expediency of lading swam, if possible, foe
the complete extirpation of the Ophthalmia."
Oa the 8811. October, 1809, Dr. Vetch, them mar sewn.
of.the Ophthalmic MOH at Bugeor (a whose knowledge
nod Within the treatment of this complaint, the Committee
"ire induced to Mirth very highly, from the evidence which
they leave merived in the averse of this investigation), ad-
dressed a letter to Mr. Karght, them losperior•General of
Hospitals, in which there is the fultowiag passage:—
"1 took ocensidli some time bark to represent to you the
alarming progress which the Ophthalmia was the. making
in the army; sent I took the liberty of suggesting the neces-
sity ref adopting some other sod more powerful mess. of
preveNtiqn."
le the. .Isee:oniag of the year 1810. • Board was appointed,
cousieting of the thee, priatipal *Meer, of the Army Medical
Hosed, and of right of the must distinguished civil practi-
tioners its Loading; sail their Report, which contaised some
highly'valuahle suggestion*, as to the most effectual mimes
of preveatiug the disorder from lipreading, by comma niceties
from infected persons, and as to the best anode of bating
it ie its early Mid acute stages, was circalated in gettersl
orders, for the titidawee and isformatioa of the medical
idErers of the army.
It does net appear, however, that Ode Helmet calitelaea
any iostructione as to the mode of treating the etrilfie or
third stage of the ophthalipie ;,00r did it direct the sites.
tics of throe fin whose gaidenee II was prepared, to the
existence or treatntrait of those effects, which the scale ie.
gionaparioir in the earlier 'loges of the• disorder, generally
produces spun the membrane that hoes the Maier surface of
tie eyelid.
In the liegineing of 1810, and afterwards la 1818, Sir
William Adam' tendered to the military deportment, in-
formation as to the chronic or third stage of the disorder,
sail as to the mode of treating list stage, which be cease-
shred to he importsiit, and at list time 1101 generally known,
In eons' quence of these cuiumuniestious from him, several
oat peesionera of Chases, afflicted with blindness, were at
diffeient times placed loader his cafe, as subjects for expe-
riments, as to the ineportauce and efficacy of the practice
which he recommended; sad these cominurications sad ex.
pediments ultimately led to the establishment of the Ophthal-
mic Hospital at the bead Of which. Sir William Adams wag
placed.
The objects of this Institution have been staled tee your
Comm live, to have been three:
First—To diffuse generally, anomie the surgeons of the
army, the knowledge of the test mode tending the chro-
mic or third stage of the disorder.
Secondly—To diminish, if possible, the charge of the
out-peasiosera of Chelsea Hospital, by curing or relieviug
Bleu who hail received pensions for defective sight.
'Thirdly—To check, in souse degree, the annelid angora-
tattoo of the pension list by treating mew shoot to be dis-
t-barged for defective sight, and by thus diminishing their
claim to pension, as far as it might be founded epee the
impaired state of their 'Woe.

inair Committee are of opinion, that these objects were
of sufficient importance to justify the steps which were taken
for their attainment.
With respect to the first point, your Committee have the
satisfaction to boil, that this, which was the must important
object, has been ready promoted. The Ophthalmia hey-
hag, upon the return of our troops from Egypt, become, com-
paratively speakiog, a new disease in this couutry; its proper
treatment was, at first, imperfectly understood. It appears,
however, that the atieutiost of tht Medical Department of the
army has, ..f late years, been most inceessfully directed in
this ',object; and that the best modes of treating all the
different stages of the Ophthalmia, are now well understood,
' and practised its the army; and your Committer are ratios
lied, that the establishment- •I the hospital, ruder Sir MI-
,. Mem Adams, has greatly erioributed to promote this desir-
able object; not wily' by the direct opportunity it afforded
of studying the various modes of practice, but indirectly,
by the nominee in which it appears to have excited the emus
lotion mod sitentioa of other practitioners.
{Pith napect to themeoud point, indeed ethos been stated,
' that valid doubts were saggesterl, how ter it was in the power
of the Commissioner' of Chelsea- Hospital to take away or
d h any peusi tttt which they had granted, under the pro-
visions of the Act of the 411th of Gs°. Ill.; and consequently,
your Committee have not thought it necessary to direct dorsn
inquiries to this point, as no diminution of pension, already
granted could, under any circumstances, have beeneffected.
With respect to the third point, as but a few men, so cir-
cumstanced, have been placed in the hospital, it does not
appear to your C tee that Sir William Adams has bad
'efficient opportnuity of shooing how far he could have
effected this utirrt, upon the stale originally proposed. But
the general diffusion of knowledge among the mrdical
'acres of the army, moat necessarily lead to the accomplish-
ment of this end.

With regard to the future toatimatice of this establish.
input, it has hero wilted to your Committee, by the dcprirt-
molt with which it orig mated, that the main objects for
which it was instituted, having Shim been attained, it dues
nut ■ppear that any public inconvenience %sunlit now arise
Intim its disroutitionuce. In this opinion your Committee
are dispnrrd to concur, and tbry therefore trcommend that
she establishment should be discontinued, as soun as the
proper straneemetits eau roureuteutiy be or. vied.
Upon the claims of Sir IViltim Adams upon the poblie,
your Committee have to report, tltal be has rested those
daials urn No grounds :
Fi►st—Upua his having been She means of promulgating
to the army, sod to the public, mink' automation Si to the
dund ur chromic stage of tire ophthalmia, mid its cuttse.

4.
quenees;.nontele, thin it . • the general, if oat
_evarisithi
effect s the issisessmarismo is the arnte Nags of the
dimmer. lk 'eider*, lea gloater or less degme, what
sac reigned powidaligoup, sit Ate kir, sailffsee aid the
eyelid; that these grammlatioas resider the palleat attlieta to
relapees, sod are frequently the rause of blindness; that
amebae the relapses su lisppenitsg, the patient is liable to
become again iolleetions,• sail therefore, that obese grans.
kliegs must immiriohly be looked for, and annoyed lame
the patient cam be effectually cured.
promidly_tir.• his having as leaded the Ophthalmic Hos-
pital shier its first fliimeatiou io 1817, without basin hitherto
received any reingsmatims fur that duty.
Upon the fie* point, year Committee have to report, that
the existeace of theme gramolanum, soil the iseeessity of re.
moving them, memo to kayo bent !mown is very early times,
and are adverted to in the works of Celan*, in the Ist ems.
tory; of Paulin., of Elgin., in the 711,; of Itbead., the An.
Mien, he the 10th ; and in the work 441%r William Reid, in
the reign of Uneem Ague ;—that rtoketpiewily, so person in
the Freer's( sky can on this subject claim more them the
merit of having revived knoeledee, shah had Takeo into
neglect. Your Committee do out feel is Necessary to pro.
noose* between the conflicting claim's upon thus head, or,
by enrogsreemiling a parliaineittary reward CI such revival,
to decide to whom that me rit properly helifigs; they con.
reigns that questing is beet left hi the deviates of the Fsak.
moo sod of the public. Rat they are of *Maims, that Sir
William Adams ha, among others, bees. greatly kora-
mental in pronsolgsting this km/sledge, and is reoderiug
it 'overall; available.
Cron the mewed point, your Committee have to report,
That since the first establishment of the hospital, is 1817,
Sir William Adams has devoted to the ditties arising out of
his appointment, a large portion of list base which, to a
profkokoal mar, is the worse of income; soul the, ions-
much as the time which he could apply to We private pew-
, tire has thereby bent much curtailed, his ptarsoigaal caw
lamest. mast also have bees proportionally Imonsed.
That he has performed the difficult dutim of his &prolog-
mein with the greatest zeal and assiduity ; mid that ran
Committee have bee. led to final the highest °plaint of has
I skill and abilities as as oculist.
Your Committee, kiln into consideretiom all the

circumstances of the rase, are lathered to reromsaiersd, that
the sun of four thousand pound. 'Wield be paid to ftv
Williams Admirer, as a reward fur the services which he has
rendered to the public..
July 3, 1821.

OXFOttD, JULY 14.
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UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
The twitcher of Regent Doctors of the Aet is cior Pad
Paper, should be instead of thirteen.
Jlll7 7, the hull day of Act Tern, the fulknring Degrees
were conferred:—

MATTERS OW ARTS.
MW Honour:1111e William Henry Cavendish Bea Hack,
Margeis of Titbitld, awing Chortle.

Re-v. Joie Garbeit, All Soul's College.
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