The National Register.
London, England, 1812-08-09 00:00:00

'TIE NATIONAL REGISTER.

has been communicated to them,tf the occurrence of a fat 4 small-pox
atter vaccination.
They cannot conclude their Report without adverting the mischief::
which are daily arising from the diffusion of the fatal contagion of
,mall-pcx in the community, in consequence of variolous inoculations
among tl• lower classes of the people, which constantly, keeps up this
contagion ; ani where it saves a single life, exposes numbers to a most
dangerous disc se.
The constant renewal of the contagion of small-pox in this
capital, which they so deeply lament, is strikingly contras..ed with
the advantages enjoyed by several of the other cipitals of Europe, its
consequence of the universal adoption of vaccination by medical prac-
titioners, seconded by the authority .of government. The cities of
Vienna and Milan, in which the mortality from small pyx was tor-
cued y m^-re considerable in proportion to their population th;in in
London, have been for some time freed altogether front. this destruc-
tive pest ; the fir-t for five, and the latter for eight y eats, according to
the statement of Drs. Dc Cairo and Sacco : And in the City of Ge-
neva, th- small-pox has been nearly extirpated. In Swdzerland in
general, hut more particularly in Geneva, the x*.ension of tire bless-
ings connected with vaccination, has in a. great degree ..:epenr-iut on the
warm and active cooziperation of the cler:ey, who e assiduous ill
recommending the practice to their parishioners faun the pulpit, as
well as promoting it by every other exertion their power.
The Board has great pleasure in siting, that the nowey granted by?
Parliamcm doting the last Session, has been sultic,ent to oetray the
exp noes of the year 1811 ; and they are of opknion, that the same sum
will he adequate to the expenditure of the current yc,ir.
By crder of the Board,
Register.

FR. NIII,NIAN,
Fresldent.

JOHN BUNN, TfIE CONVICT.

TO TIM EDITOR OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER.
SlR—Allow MC to express my satisfacion at the insettiort
in your last paper, of a letter signed Candour, yimticating the
morals of an Unfortunate being, who. though just,y •) et take's,
by the laws of his country for one offence, was not so de-
praved, and so dead to feeling, as to have committed the
heinous crime which, it seems, has.been imputed to him.
No, Sir, there is still honour and decency left among thie% es;
and the man who would not disdain to seize the purse, or
use the name of others, for interested purposes, would shrink
with horror from seducing the wife, or the inexperienced
(laughter of a friend. In the former case, arguments are not.
wanting to palliate to his own conscience the enormity of tho
offence of which he has been guilty. The pressure of want,
the clamours of irritated creditors, the sufferings and cries of
a starving family, and the proud neglect of the world, which
beholds, without relieving, his misery, as they were his in,
citements to theft or forgery, form the unc:ion which
lip
lays to his soul. " Had I not been the most miserabte ot`
men," he tells his own heart, " 1 shotud not have been guilty.
Ilad I not been denied that assistance which homanitv
I shoeld not have been reduced to force it out of the hled
that ought spontaneously to have opened fir my relief What I.
have taken was a trifle to him who lost it, and will he easily
replaced." Su( h are the reasonings with which he prepares
himself for the rash act, or soothes temore after it has been
committed. But, in the other ca,e. whit what a, ti-untents
can he palliate his crime in his own eyes ? (*an he urge hi::
want? Vilett neres.sity can compel hint to play the hypo-
crite; and, under the mask of i'riehdship, to blast the pe.tp,
of families? Does he deiive any relief. any advantage t: ohs,
such an act? Does it citable hint to carry inirne comfo4t9,
an afflicted wife, and distiessed children? It covers Into, with
public infamy; it brings desolation to the bosom of his fit-
mils; it heaps on him dom;s:h: bar; ..litor
to
wedded happiness, and makes him a husbaiid ioa
own wife—a father despised by his own chi!dren. Can he.
lull ietnorse, with the flattering hie.a, that the tryury he II; s;.
caused is tolling, and can e:oily be ,epured *No; he is
conscious, that neithr--
lie has soiled.- He 1.

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