The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-09-25 00:00:00

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1 25, 1822...-••; )01 ?VI? 41(ptir lime 14 werstl soil 'cast/. ,: , • Punt 76...-
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:RI% /e.g.& still:if.; 860 Demerara at lid. a 111.1.; lan Barhedues the chest. and therefore especially injurious in tier
at 7J. ; 84.; 130 West India at Bd. aBII. ; 10 flosyrea at c.itie of females, and eqoalltti hurtful by its pressure
7}d.; 10 Serve et 70. per lb, The impost this week is 1,011 00 the stomach, .to say no ine of ita h • e a
re. bags, viz Demet era 700, New Os leans 285, and Smyrna Ilk k • A . e , ~-,. , Milo very
rt of There haelseen agooddemene for B. P. Sugar ibis Weeks ',tall'? R. 'aim. I wave al" a iintinCi. and weir oohs
43e, i sod the public sale basduee off with spirit al •ts advisee, I inatetial objection to the doe of the waisteosieAreiiiir •
that ,ar 14. olk brown, apd Is. a 26. 01k Illiddlikle iescriptinisa. tl., quite sure that, where it is used as an iisatrutniat of
wit aessitity troM is I,oon cask.; 600 bag% of Britoil hayeatiat personal restraint, it will sonietiasei be brony,ht into
~,c,, been sates by the grocers al former privet, tay rt'7oa. IC le
action at en isishottsbent of pttet. ishebent •. a hart:deed
sad 75a. 3d. for middling to fee white. 106 rams mkt 160 boxes
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of Pernambuco lint, Paraiba Seger, offered at seed's isei peteent, when under great excitenseut, wil(,sonse-
tans •
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ThorsJay, brought fair prices, ins. fair to good awes* las. a times give a slap to the face of his keeper k the
sad Sta., low to middling white. 2115. 6d. a 28s. 61, and Mir to keeper eingvilk applies the strait waistcoat Solite,
)a.t. geed streeg white 304. a 335. Bd. Runts are wieleuut slower- and is naturally governed in the tightness with
of Jamaice and Veiny, •ra which he applies it by the degree of reelluttbent
1"' tiCoullinetTerellid at •sutolesyeablistiliday, hood chiefly of ordiaary •
Which he been to the offending lunatic. .
eii defy, were taken is fur want a buyers; sad there has . .
been little or loathing doing in the article privatele. Caro. " I must here mention • circumstance which I
e li.. Rice of middling to fair Twill, has sold at tic, a am sure will prove agreeable to you, which is, that,
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170 61; and a parcel of good Preheat* has brought 91 much us I have coaeersed with the more rational of
per lb. C•ssiderablP byline", has been dose is Drewawlti our patients, as well as with persons who hare been
consisting of fresh tine Jem•tea Loreitiod at W. a 81• toe,
discharged h. the Hospital, I hate never beard
14 canireacey 91. 5.., and fresh at IW.; Ceiba Puttee st
• ggy ;N.. ca„,,,, spaaja, a, et., sad a 'mita, ei., a assail t one word of complaint offered against either of the s.
parcel or Nicaraguewood has sold also at 60/. The sales of physicians or surgeon., those patients having always .
:.•,, Hides have been very eonshlerable,amonnting to 17,100 Cow
'me and Ox, ewe VS7OO Meese $ the former eeesisiing of 15,200 on the contrary spoke:, to me with respect set the
skill of those officers, sod with gratitude if their ,
tr. diir.mey at
4.14a•:141521.41.1"..141,.`9"e.c05a1t:daiiparre1614. aolooa 'we" lb.; yptil; le- ndereess- and attention ; a feet which has always •
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Nut- Inferior Saltpeter bas sold at 111 E, sad fair at the. sutptised the, as every patient knows that his ph .a
Lisle- There has twee a steady &pseud fur the middling gild good ...Wien is the only person who stands in the hey of '
mutinies of Viegireia and Kentucky stemmed Tobacco, sod 1
tgallerieshish
menlargement.arkoedr the
Hospital l
calmness,ne ter
ee r parsed through the fetosla
r• to about 000 Mids. have been sold at the previous' pekes; tjstre
i• °I has also been a fair demand fur the Irish market. Oar Gars I
nwilinthodluitty,b:tiindgctei"fkidoweirtah,
Ilid- Merkel use Tuesday last was but thinly emended ; new Wheati. . i,
him- swadere°Smiald7heuet gloh.de utssitiilngausiredy„fiwarriveeneal some
mse rvl*l-isolelels gwrheisethly Paret*t attributable blVttothtelie oti:endilleisod
wor k "nhrichhariev r .1
8" Wheat ha. bee" dull or "Is ywillteat aaa' nilet•lin. •in prices. put into their hands by our humane and valuable
i'lh• We have eo notice an ad of 3d. to 6J. per cwt. is Tar. maims,
Liam peutiue, about 1,100 kris having bees dispensed of et 13..31 es. •
to 13s. 61 per cut. Some inferior Brimetune has been sold -1 o employ the hands, is to relieve the mind of a
Prifs at 211. 155., and good at 231. per ton. lunatic, and it certainly is to increase the chance •r 5,
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""R' On. -Fish Oils are 202. to 30s. per to higher than last of recovery. Hence it mast be matter of deep Se- . •
gret, that means hare not yet been devised of giv-
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wiwk• though but little buultmus his bees du" Ihereal• "" ing: with sisfety, work to our male patients, as is the
practice or severs
oils could purchasers be readily fanned wobble 21. of oh, quootaii
tnes. Sperm Oil is steady al teal week's prices. Rape I well-regulated country asylums.
N'ex• is If. to 21. higher. Bodily labour engages sad consumes that power •
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auk- . MEDITERRANEAN PRODUCE. which gives activity to the mused, sod experience
1,4 w,, -IS ray'? DO alteraiton can be quoted. has proved that it is a powerful mean of checking
_ . Them Sam Is mill laukiwg down, but we cannot at pre- and abating that unnsturnl activity of mind, which
seal make any alteration in our quotations.
' ' BRITISH STAPLE ARTICLES. is the usual characteristic or insauity. This prin..
inn. ciple is strongly illustrated in the case of a very i ,
Reenters Cuaaa.-Roth small sod large lumps have bees : . i: 01 11,
tale-.ii.eres..tig young woman, 1101 e 111 the Hospital,
la very steady demand since our last, sad contracts for the• i I, -
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liner to deliver iu two or three weeks bare bees at rather whom I saw some months ago quite unemployed.
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'I. higher prices.
tem, . EAST INDIA PRODUCE. • talking rapidly sod incessantly, and much confused
in her ideas, when I naturally sated the Matron
COITOIC-The demand has bee moderate slate
Be laid, i
and the prices have been fully supported except for ngal. why she had not given to her needle-work, who told
r, at
. The sales of the week are, in bond, 400 hags Upload, mid• ewe that she never attempted to force any work
'it's" duets Std. fair to good fair 71 to 71d.; 60 Pernambuco, lOn a patiedt-and that this woman had repeatedly
tea, fair to good fair 10.1. to lop. • leo gum, middlisg Old., fair objected to all work, when offered to her. Soon
to good fair od. to did., good 6l I.; 200 Bengsl, ordinary after this,
the young woman, complaining much of
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ptwiddling aidotal . to bkl.,
bags. fair to good fair Old. to 51d., good her confinement, earnestly requested . that I wool,'
er lb. T 760
obtain her enlargement, which I undertook to
1110100.-1 n consequence of the chew of samples for the
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enausag sale having commenced, the market is at preseot endeavour to do on two conditions; the first was I
Very quiet. that she should talk less; end the second, that
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~„,r, PIEPPCR.-The sale of 1,000 bogs on Friday last off she should work more ;to these she immediately 1
i heavily n consequence of the dearth of orders 1 prices
agreed, and some coarse hoes was put auto her
eh,• required, soil wily %boot one-tenth was disposed of at 61 to
aid. per lb., the remainder is firmly held fur the sante rates. hands. which was done by her with manifest iudif.. I f
BALTIC PRODUCE. ferenee and carelessness, but it did not abate her
rest, TALLOW.-The asaiket has he. n rather heavy, sod bast- incessant talking, or produce the slightest difference
Las. sem has been dune at a small reduction lu priers. in her manner. It was then jodged expedient by i i
sery. •-•-• the Matron, that some more nice and difficolt '
urns_ Porfsrripf, Tuesday, Sepfeasber 24, 15'22, Four o'Cd.sa. work should be given to her, which was done, and
Cowes.-At the public sales In ought foi wind to daydbere this
employed her for some weeks, at the end of
was much less demand for the finer descriptions, and the'' '
eve-
prices obtained wire lower than those of last week by 3.. to which time I again saw her, and was much struck
4 Se. per cwt.; line middling Jamaica having been sold at 140 s. by her consternate and reserve. I then asked her i
_a_n_": en Itt.. W. arid go.id middling was taken in se 1395. BJ. for whether she was not much better i• She answered
•It'orr gabble shoat 1370. 6d. per cwt. was bid; the ordinary qua. that she did not know how it was, but the difficult
mini went at fall the farmer prices.
10011111.-The B. P. !market was very firm to day, and
N work she had lately done had certainly door good
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1,600 Wads. were sold at roll prices. A public sale of White to her head. This passed last week, and I was
food,
Havaaaah went off blight, at ao mimice of is. to 2s. per much pleased to see her this day brought up by the
lira.
fora,
___ cwt. physician, who recommended her going out no trial
sit,of BETHLRM HOSPITAL. for a month; and 1 have no doubt that the improves
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2.- meni of her mind was produced by the co-exertion
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the hands sad eyes, required by the more diffi-
anis The Amami F-atertainraent of the Governors of Rethlem cult work she last performed.
sots, Hospital took place on tbe Sib July, on which recession
tone, laird Robert Seymour, ewe a else Governer. (upea his "Mental diteene, I believe, is very seldom trace-
bes, health being drank), expressed himself to the &mowing able to merely physical causes; if this be so, we
',wilt effect:- most have recourse to a moral agency for its Cora
2. " 1 have always set great value upon public din. rection and core, and I know none that is so likely
tiers of this sort, us bring useful in exciting a spirit to succeed as the constant employment of the bands 2
of good-will to our fellow-creatures We are in. iii such work as will somewhat occupy the mind. ‘.
ferreted in the sante objects-we sympathise in the I well recollect that, in answer to the circular letter
same sentiments, and thus our general stock of which your Committee wrote some years ago to all
benevolence is increased. the country asylums, to learn their practice And
R. " I have always thought it an important part of sneers', several of them told us that they had efs
Illy my duty, as Governor of Brthlem Hospital. to go fectrd many cures among those of their patients, I I
.lifli. through the wards of it, and to see every patient in who were of the labouring class, and who were
lip; them, whenever the opportunity has occurred. therefore prone to work. Plow, the greater part of -
PPro- The visitation of a lunatic is always highly agree- our patients are of this description, and I shoulffre- • - 1
eso able to him, as proving that he is not forgotteti, and commend their being employed in our garden if it l
else
~,,d shatidooed by society. It is also a strong incentive were enclosed with walls. Our funds. however. do
hut to the person who has the care of him in the di,- not now enable as to wall in the garden to prevent
'free charge or his duty. Humanity has lately made the escape of the patients; and I fear that ill re
great adv ince. in die care of insanity •; we live in would be some diffi.colty in finding such garden 1
einc nines which are touch more favourable than those tools as might be safely placed in their hands. We
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which have past to persons afflicted with insanity. might, however, easily contrive to employ them in .
dirt A man now talks to his friends,without repugnance. the house in platting straw, in making matting,
rally ' of his near relation bring disturbed in mind, and paper bags for the shops, list shoes sod carpets, and
sale he shitiks it his duty to see such relative frequently various other articles. Work is now done by only
15" in his confinement ; whereas, till withiti the last two male patients, one of whom makes shoe*, and
lade .
tew years, when a proem was sent to a mad-house, the other straw baskets; both these puttents one •
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odd his family made as much a point of putting him very properly allowed to sell their work, and I cans
rely, IPA of their minds, ea if he haul been consigned to not see why others should not be encouraged Iv
the grave. 1 have been all my life in the practice work in the same way."
nst of visiting W. asylums of lunatics, as: well upon His Lordship again congratulated the Governors . . Per the Continent NV at home; formerly, perhaps from on the remarkable improvement which had am, ,
motives of curiosity only, but 1 trust latterly from of late effected, both iu the moral and medical .
eof some desire to serve my fellow-creatures. and I ant management of the insane (laying particular titre), - g
re of sure that I have not on ten occasions witnessed a upon the former). He adverted to the numerous
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lunatic visited by either • relative ur a friend till testimonies of approbation which were constantly ~
• . within the few last years. offered in the visiting-book, by persons of every
4, When 1 have of late years gone through the rank and profession, and by natives of every coon-
wards of our Hompital.4 have been much pleased try ; and he concluded by urging upon all the
g alt with every thing I have observed in them. Very Goveors the duty of more freqiient personal hi-
m), imposed upon the. +bisectiornn and attention to the important Institution ..i
Or.. little personal restraint is
isles patients, mud when it has been unavoidably applied, over which they presided. ''l
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ran it his been only for a short time : un unfortunate II.
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out sufferers are now chained without clothes to our Extract of • letter from the Agent to Lloyd's et
1,i.. walls, as formerly ; too wretched patient is enraged Rio Janeiro, dated 31st July :-" The fhtion Poe. • 1 •.1
Id.; in iron; and the strait waistcoat is now so much tuguese frigate, Russo timid° brig, Marco de (slue i 1
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250 out of use iii our Hospital, that there was this day via, and Liberal corvettes, sailed the 14th instant; i
tit, no one of the 223. patients in the House so confined. it is said for the porpoee of preventing assistance . : .I
Bs' I thick it my duty noon every occasion to deprecate from Portugal entering Bahia, and to compel the
4" this horrible nistrument of restraint, as being highly European soldiers stationed there to return to Eu. •
,30 unfavourable to respiration and health, iudentiog rope."
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