The National Register.
London, England, 1816-07-28 00:00:00

MEDICINAL SPRINGS NEAR LONDON.

Tire Medicinal Springs of Dulwich and Sydeeham,
which were about half a century since in such utiles.
tion as to be a common resort from London, are now
entirely relinquished, but they might probably be re-
called, as the same soil remains through which they
then ran. At that time, when the Green Man, oppo..
site Dulwich Grove, was a house of general assembly,
the water was served in the same manner as it is now
•at Tunbridge or Cheltenham ; this was lost when
that house was sold, with the adjoining fields, into private
hands; and Sydenliam has continued to preserve the springs
in small tubes sunk in the earth near the little cottages muter
the-hill, to which, until very lately, it yielded a trilling emolu-
ment. The water of the neighbourhood retains the quality in
a lesser degree, in general so feeide as not to be noticed in the
usual beverage; but It is peculiatly obnoxious to iron, and
therefore iron pipes for all the weds aie avoided. Hut the
beauty and healthiness of the neighbouring country would
afford great encouragement for a speculation of that kind, if
the short distance front town (lid not operate as a drawback
on the virtue of these salts, as it would preclude the pleasure
of a distant journey, which always furnishes the greater part
of the proposed remedy ; and the judicious arrangement of
assembly-rooms, and theatrical entertainments, including late
hours in the evening, which are happily combined for all the
family. with the absolute necessity of sue member• of it Ira%el-
ihug to take the waters, might if found necessary fur their moue
recovery, be readily established, with a circulating library for
a lounge; but without billiards or raffles. It is very remark-
ab:e that senative springs of this kind surround London ; and
are on that vet), account neglected. The Tunbridge waters
have been taken for many yeats past, at a teahouse near the
Spa-fields, now discontinued; the same spring has been also
served at a place near Gray's Inn-road, called St. Clads, and
at Kagnigge Wells. An opera well has for ages been resorted
to fog eves, both at the Spa-fields, and the postern on Tower-
hill ; and yet we have not heard of any physician who has
lately recommended it to his patients, to take the short journey
to these places ; though they all,in times past, had acquired
great use and eeleSrity.. Whatever is easily attainable and
near home has no value, and *acne* no interest; and absence
from London in the leisure months of the year, is of more im. .
purtance than recovery at home at an unfashionable time.

A Geseral Meeting of the Association for the relief of the •
Manufacturing nod Lebow ing poor, is advertised to he held to-
morrow at the City of London Tavern, for the purpose of con-
sidering the.anost beneficial way of giving assistance to such
Ascociations as may. be formed for the relief of those parts of
the ccuntry which at present are suffering most severely under -
the pressure of temporary di,tress. The Dlte ct York wilt
take 4iseetntir ; and the meeting, it is exiieeted, will be most
respectably an 1 nuoierowdv attended.
The. Lord Mayor of London arrived r..t South-End on
Tuesday, on his. route for Rochester. Four hundred
ticket; had been issued, and about gerrtlemen and la-
dies of the first respectability sat down to an excellent
dinner at the Royal Hotel; and in the evening there was
a most splendid ball. The dancing cornuicnced at eleven,
led off by Alderman Heygate and Miss Wood, and was
kept up until six o'clock on the following morning. Most
of the neighbouring families were present and the bril-
liancy of the room was much added to 1w the attendance
of a great number of naval and neilitrry oficers from.
Sheerness.

The Carnival of London is nearly at an end—a very
few Nobility attached to the Court remain in town—the
list of departures in every journal o" futhion is as much
lengthened as it was in their arrir:l. two nomths since.
The winter in London begins n.t the end of Nsay, and
finishes at the end of July. But the frequent splen-
dours at the Regent's Palace. the Reyal Marriages, anti
the consequent complimentary visits, the approach..
ing birth-day on the 12th of Aunlst, unite to keep up
the lid) of the metropolis, and t I encourage the trades
and manufactures and ingenious alt.. which would other..
wise decline at this period.
The lk:archioness tie la Rochejsquelin, in her Me-
n( the it in La rendZc. :elutes the following
anecdote while she ws, at lirenvire:—Two officers en-
tered into a dispute und?r our windows in the street.
One drew his sabre and touched :he other gently, who
put himself in a pasture of dth•nce. My hither, .who
happened to be near them, stopped his arm, and said to
him, " Jesus Christ pardoned his murderers, and shall
a soldier of the Catholic Army kill .his comrade?"—This
man immediately embraced the other. Besides this in-
stance, I never heard of a &el in our array. The war
was so active and so perilous, that no man .dreamt of -
shewing his courage other than ag,..inst the enemy.
By letters of the 1I th of June from Constantinople
we learn, that her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales
arrived in that city on the 6th of thr:t month. She took
up her abode at the British Palaec till a house at Buyuk.
dere was fitted up for her reception. On the 9th were
presented to the Princess all the Foreign Ministers, and
the same evening the British Factory. Shortly anotht:r
presentation was to take place, to give those an oppor-
tunity to be pre -anted who a ere disappointed on the thr-
rner occasion. Her Royal Highness, say the letters, con-
ducted herself at all.;roes vriih tho greatest affability ;
yet in other respects she ti4led to Abed satisfaction to
the British merchants; inasmuch as she gave a deciffill
preference in all her dealings to foreigners. She lt;t:1
credit on a Greek home :lir 4C,000 Spanish dollars, when
n British house could have accommonated her Royal l high-
ness as well. Being in want of jeaellery, the l'rincess
applied to a Frenchman ; and she is attceded by a Nea-
politan Count and two I.adieti. At Genoa and Sicily lu.s.
Royal Highness was well received ; hut at Malta, it is
said the (inventor made the vessel, on board of' which her
Royal Highness was, perform quarantine in the strietall
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