The National Register.
London, England, 1816-05-27 00:00:00

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NEATDici7•I7. cbirai Tollitor. the. ad IEOI4 to ea.II oil' the unhappy eufferer's attention •
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Ov. Nleer. five means ; who admits the reality of the disease, and
successfully iuspirts hopes of a cure, will frequently be
flirtunate enough to remove one of the Meet distressing
states to which numkind is subject. G. ear! of political economy is of more inmortanec to the legislator
than that which relates to the naves ti: he i inploye I fe :rev:ming,
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any rate lesseedng, Minelicity. Beside's other evils contacted
with this practice, one of the principal is, that it tends to incomes.*
idlene. s, a hick is the i arent of ignorance an I vice. So s•nsible wee
• the ancients of this truth, that in mime conntries an idle person wie
--me.- BET HLE. 3I HOSPITAL. treated as a state criminal. Aniesis, one of the greats:St i rim es that
THERE is scarcely any disease. more intolerable to
reigned in Egyet, enacted a law which obliged every inhabitant to
.those who labour under it, and yet which obtains less IN our last we gave an account of the suspension of Or. apoeur annually before the eovernor of the province to give an account
e pity and commiseration from indiflerent persons, than key- Maim as Physician, and Mr. Haslant as .4 palsrcary of Ilethlem of his Feteee". and the manner in which he lived. Ti,,,,,c who foihd
poehondrinsiat, or, as it is frequently called in familiar lan- Hospital. wy scares! y. know "1.3'1,' c' rot that '4"i gi" m"r". • to comply with this regulation. and who could not prove thet they led
satist:ii lion. to those who are attached to the ts sae interests mot an hones; and industrious life, ncre condemned to ballet di nth. He-
guage, the .40. The former of theso circumstances is
glery of this country. Not that slieli omelet's will triumph in the
:4 -the consequence of those distressing feelings which itiva- mistot tune of respectable Gentlemen. They will regret the ere rodigus, to teholo we are indebted for this fact, maws. that Solon kor-
rowed this law from the Egyethins, and introduced it at Athens, when
riably attend this complaint ; and tine latter arises feom an ror by which it hes beeil ocean' •(1, as they would in every
Opinion, universally entertained, that imaginary fancies cone where men of high station depart f a sense nt even as it was rigelly enforced. In genteel, all the endue of Greece adopted
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practice of their duty. Hut lamentine the fate of the iiiiliyi- Lou maxims regard to idlenrc3. They considered beggars as
atone constitute the indisposition of the patient ;anti that
duels, it becomes them aim, to Ira proud that no false pityy nor morbid parts which ought to be speedily hipped ow from the body of
r he has no more to do than to think himself well, to be- ally revs ex ranable motive, have preserved those Crtattlenten front the state, in order to prevent the spreading of corruption and disorder.
t' 'inc so. How erroneous this opinion is, will appear, if th ___e proper consegtirrwes of tbeir anise Net. If there he nay' The this ancient Romans, in rupees. were not inferior to the Greeks.
„i fore merely enumerate sonic of the principal symptoms truth in the proposition, thst punishment is applied fore:reneges
, One of the principal functions of their censors WM, to seize all vain -
sake in hek.grof -tire semis, it is doubly cogent "?'I ""dal'''' 'bonds. and to cause each &leen to give an tint in what maner
! witieli are found to annoy the hypochondriac. %Whatever
here. Not that we would he meant to ;newt, that dismissal
alive moral causes may have in producing the disease, it Irons office is of tee nature sat' a penalty adjudged by law to he employed his time. Those who coukl not do, so were condemned
.. tr. is certain that there exists great bodily indisposition. A visit an *genre. But it often nerves heavy punishment : long so the mines, or to other public works. In the present period of int-
S' waist of appetite usually" accompanies this coutolaint, and with it -lose of name mudlevitation, and of ehiracter as re, prevenient, when the human ininid, enlightened I y the experience. of
Bards the qualities which the Alec. demanded. ' Ated it in well past ages, leigins to adopt a roore rationalslain of 'whey, we are gist
the food which is taken does not unelergo proper digestion; that it should he so. This is a moral I •, einem, reducing to find ti e this spbjcct has not cetapal the attention of the legisletere,
Atidities, heart-burn, oppression of thesteme.cle irregular wholesome efl'ects mem the e snit,, whatever may devotee An inquiry was set on foot ~one time ago ; end the '• Minutes of el e
, action of` the alimentary canal, languor, aversion to ex- of the Anil he may be rek hairnet! too; and then the Evidence taken before the Commitux eppointial by the House of Corn..
excise, and inability of much muscular exerti. an, are ;11110/1,, wink is completed in ell its parts How it may be in the pee- reins to ins nice into the elite of Mendicity and Vagrancy in the Mr-
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' the deviations. tram' .a healthy state, which usually takei' scut ease, iipins the elade of the results, cannot yet be known __
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Bet we will answer tl,c one resort. No peeeinte uppointed to uop lb en.. its neigneourcooa, prevent many curious and extraor-
dinery fives, which are well worth tlic,ptit,he attention. The publicity
:7 I .: place. Were these' the only symptoms, the complaint
t r • the sanative* was vacant will IsereAfter repeat the eirors of
of them may serve, in some measure, to check this evil, which rand!
would not differ from tlyspepsatz,. or ordinary stomach dis- former thine. Whoever may be clown, they at ill enter-upon
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erdent• ;• but there is added to theta; a peculiar state of office with their eyes nrum their own footsteps. 'ramie opi. of it elf decrease did it exPerierice lees eticettragemint. But it ought
. ' mind, very difierent from the ordinary and general dis- Men, wide% is incaareble whenever it ill awakened to ail appre. to be remembered, that though there are many
swim impose on the
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t. I, poeition of the indiv lilted, when in. a state of' health. . A hension of its ditties, will be ever present to admonish when philanthropy of the piddle by fictitious tales of misery and el' • • .strts .
It ',lthey relax from a right course ; and :oepliiiiil, up to the highest (hers are, on the other hatid, some who have heeu reduced n) • piAcrty
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.fi- wry scat and .unueeounteble depression of spirits, an ex- naecotre a g bade their steady perseverance in that coerse. .
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. - r'aio 1 ' 1 • • and indigence
teesive irritability of temper, easily provoked by the A joi.t regard. r eiarseter, as t concert* their rattiest oat by misfortune, which hiniein sagacity ceneet &Islip.
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.fores.e, nor the most geteded pellet re: er'ent:
' slightest -mitt most Inadequate causes; vague and un- of deorsi wit' aelevith its powerfel Mlle.:nes ;• and where that: •
now fail, Fenn will point t J INASIrLE; sod say The first mover of this inquiry a; pests to hive been a M:. elattiue
1t l' 1 founded suspicions arc excited and maintained without ta-iilnsioirteft.qrrapnetli acid what rail, do ;-on now beisrlyour.conrsef- who in lane untlatee!s, under tae einctlia of overninent. to exentine
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11 ' .t ,Le levet apparent reusea, and the unhappy sufferer is son- It is thus, diet tbe Cravernors hti 1 I
°I. the --^sl'l4- have, Iry their late: ' the state of mendicitv In the ream; ales • Not this purpese hr tits' rceul
• ontantly tormented with the fearof dying ; for, to no other decision, tteldietl strong cheeks mote abuses in parts elite
, cif tickets to charitable pereons. at the:tie:Lee each, to be distributed
administration. lint the •ss hole wool, to net accomplishru.
..„ be ors who ee. 1,,,, • ••them . ee- • •
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et the mice of the Insucetwn were
termination of his complaint (lees; he ever beck forward,
I Elm- office and service in the e•tablishinent is of importance. -.. gg
Paid the =punt, una sienotinue moil in retchn fur their hirttre,
..although hypochondriaeis has no mortal tendency, except
D tit 's art beefed, or a tilliorite abused, even among-tire 'Dewiest -
when t:-.c• state of ravancholy is so excessive as to induce of the emeloyeiL, is billows dby terror and suffering in the mm- which was carefully recorded in ',polo kept ready for the purpose. In
Pe: patient hires elf voluntarily to seek this last end deplo- happy patient.. A ast.er.a can inflict tonere yr adniiiiister 'little more than seep months et 410 examinations were elm by mess
Tel le reiief. liypochotulriasis may be said to occupy the solaCT. : MOM too much to expert habitual kindness or eu di- ,of tlice.• tickets; and.this number. Mr. Martin conceives, to he sleet
4 middle point between dyspepsia, a mere disorder of the I:a; r)..ientti';'' In
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, 1 . ~,,. onemini of the full grown.begg'irs in the metropolis. nem the re.
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r,;ans principally cooct:tned in digestion, and melanclio-
. -.e,..."nct.„-so mac.. more personal inspection, as ieastaltol
Bout all the -tipper departments. Indeed their seems to be a salt of the inquiry, in semen!, he conclutlea. that the toil me . unt of
the persons subsisting by Ine-gary is 15 IRS individeids of both save
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of the specie.; into which' mania or madness is di.. defect hi the system of rape rintrndancs and contr.:tut in these
and all ages. ~I rune nome parvenue's, including about 4,15 S
tike l. It istboth a bodily and a mental disorder, although establishments, especially en the wide and extended ;rate of
children,
amount to 6.695; the distant panwhials„ inclnding 11.4f7
Itethlren Hospital. There should lir a department of a/trey nee
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flee other ; the primary&
affection, whether of body or
are the one is the consequence of, or pendent upon •
'el 2 wwieldyrt.nriegiC superirtendence; the members relieving tacit children, to '4,604; and tbc non.parochials, including children• to
other be vreecn rs, if we mei, call it so. , We speak of officers ell. &Men Of -these, the Irish, including 3,.....";3 children, amount to
• • - reind, giving rise to the subsequent train of combined !wad& it to the labou'rs of the Committee, or of Visitors limn the 3.310 ; the Scots, including 309 children, to 501; and foreigireie in.
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symptoms- There arc some physicians who so decidedly Gatnernorn. 'Jim latter arc to superintend and t.otarelli the eluding s 7 chitties'', to lee. The sum extorted from the public. by
whale vast mayhem* ; 'the former to see hourly that the imetualimportunities, Mr. Martin *limier. at .C97,12E sore being at
attribute: the whole complaint to a derangement of the „ • ' • their
and mingle movemeets are correct. 'f he inmate,. if those who
digestive functions, as to speak confidently of curing the arc appointed ieternalt h • I '
yto govern t escein unhappy masuars, or to the rate of *spencer a day for the fond, clothing, and lodging of Wits.
-c mplaint by freely emulging the binary ducts, and who .a4ministrs to their wants, is too few in the quantity e.f indii i-
and three-pence a day for the children. Of the 2000 cases inquired
require no ether weapons than a few doses of calomel to diem, and in the qnantity of departments. here lies one mein , into, let were men, and 1,&41 were women ;of the latter. 1.100 were
error of the. admitibstv,attiolt (lt ttais
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hospital., Cu,uremos married; set were widows, and sri single; aid from this disparity.
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1. ' rout 'he enemy, and put' him completely to flight. That
the dyspeptic symptoms may be thus occesionafly relieved, beyond necessity sitpplic_ tee place ef persoityl att. valance. anti added to other circumstances, Mn. Martin is disposed to think. that in
min oak rarvades,, the %vele for scout of an alleviate su •' minor:- more than half the cases which came before him, beggary hod arisen
there can be no doubt.; that the patient is by these means dance A'e really putt this riii, both for laying no under blame from real distress.
alone to be cured, may 'be
justly questioned. The )33.. upon the eetseral inanneement an it is now conetituted, old of
p ' tine out the tt uc rented>. for the genie al errors of the esta- From this report. there is reason to think that the Irish l'eggins in-
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of the mind claims.no inconsiderable share iu • -' number, and perheps also in depravity. exceed all the rest.- In the
blishment.
• onductime the cure ; and, W1airy
this reason to despair of a universal reform in parish of St. (.ilea i, alone, there me I,YIO grown persons rod 1,134
1, c a cluldren. An overseer of that parish states, that of the £IY, no
eumstance, all endeavours will frequently prove abortive. the of of this twist interesting charity. The GOTrttanltS raised annually within the parish for the poor. /wets*: g 0,4 to the
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In the grenter'nurstber of care's, it is probable that the have shown their proper sense of theirshoy en this late occasion. maintenance of the lower Irish, who are min-pinch :al.
, Re that. they has e le% hr 14i the hope that the Initiiiitton a ill
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Ctranged function's of the body depend. upon the mental 1,,,,,r,..,""-",d fr;.,Fil the o • . • • crime tire inclined to think, that one great cause of beggar,. thooith
pprobroun and disgrace into which it '
others assert the contrary, is. the practice formes-it by most of the city
. ' i . disorder, an opinion which ie confirmed liy pheerving the fulef.justly ranee, 1
.)Altt.lA KENT. meanwhile, will Hot forget its
testal predispaeition to the disease, and by the inethixls elm, 'ON-sone/ern a the fictional Interests and hwensir. But for Fa
orrnis,":etivi;c. of farming out
,ou,ntrled.osaiiri.uirritil:lief
vljtoshehortustor:cutoef
hundred,
found most efilx•tetal in removing it. This mental shere 'the leetienty into this tease by the 'douse of Qom:eons, that all in one ritTllbe, at the Irate of parishes,
shillings ti head ; to? übieh he sup.-
scene ef %scones mad oretetleaineSS theMilliThalned n charity. and pee, them with victual:4, drink and lodging, and after the tire, twelve
gof the disease aoes slot occur in dtry constitution, and nt
that then disgrace to the Braish haute impudently caller' its months with clothing.
every .age, how( v•cr aggravatelthe disordered state of the pride and Ireist, and glory, w mid now have remained what it Thomas Tipple, residing also at Brixton. farms the poor of
corporeal functions may, from-any-cause, be. Persons of thru *A+. tint! this e•iturinity been discovered by foreigners • i • . •• • shalt
le parishes, the average number being mono eeo, in winor nearly
a melancholic tea: *comsat are" alone subject to hypo- befere Our, oun Parliament went ion enquiry, what might not 300. The contract price is regulated by the price of bread. thing six
~. • Mier respite:l to the proud name of Britain? Veer hceevolvnee, shillings a week, when the quartern loaf is about a shilling, beside; a
eliteuiriasi.s ; and, in ilea:*, hams not occur usually until
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esh.cli had lieretohne rai lall Aright in the . little •
frt. you above a..i niers' prole for clothing them. and two thirds of their earnings, I y
anidalle life. How much the ba'il ' • by
y :., influenced the- cstinnolon of the civilized nations of the world, woold have being employed on slop-clothing; one third being allowed to t'w
mat": of the mind we all know; it is not therefore to be Seen
deienied a mere eta aide show, full of hollowness and rotten- paupers thiainelres. Thu person admits that the Paupers frequently
. evondered at, that the functions of the former should be mesa anti corruption within. The g I you slid, the hummer go out, but not without his permission; that they are sometimes
elerangiel, when the hattr is from any cause perturbed "nann'b"ed benefits "it s'nhbegging in the streets. and that he himself has been w -0
leered dAily And hourly on suffer- ceught ._._ . , . • • opes .
• ing humanity. would !IMP been turned into mockery as it' • when m a different drew, byte,
las own lodgers, who toe' a deploralser
ar distrieeed. If there be ceme in which hypochondriosis niCre• and impudent rename. And thus your name, whirls has story, though to his knowlee they had received their days allonanee
'afore they Set out. The bin
of fare he stated to bei—hrtsd evety
entirely depends upon a diseadered state of the digestive hung been the signal and pass-word for lit r lill Id benevolence is
. • • ' day fourteen ounces hest wheaten • breakfaet every
morning one tent
i . organs, and can bee, cured by an attention to these, it is Folunnw N.:Mine. would hare died il .5 Ay among those pest. and a half of gruel; meet on Sundays,' Tuesdays, a -nd Thinsdar.
, :. • well—of such rises wc need not Teak : but, as it, is cer- pie i or, rather would have become a wird q/' scurvy and comitarpt twelve ounces of uncooked, or eight ounces ceoked, without bone, with
to them and the -enerations which value in smiceseion after vegetables; 'broth whenever the meat is boiled; 'cuter three (limas
• twin that the grntakee r.unitier of earns will be of a differ- ,1 " ." ' ' • •
omi. rids wonlieleter been Me result ; although in part un of Menders and Friday.; cheese three ounces on Wednesdays stid.
1 eat description, let us attend a little to the causes and . justly:- for yon killl preserved the head and will to do good, Sattudaysi small beer ilia rims each day; the choice of tea or coffee
I : appropriate treatment of these. One of the most power- howeveedeceiveil as to the applicei ofthe wrens you actually in lieu of the gruel.
and far,.l 'provided. itearare! owl weer lie so dresised ea; !
i ii• jul exciting causes is an inactive and unemployed mind; Be
„we Y 1 . • . •- " Edward Deacon, of Mee End. farms the poor of
• I i cement wttli good ausl kind purposes. Fell not short nearly forts' ear
parishes, having about leo at one house, slowed at old Pore :
'r Cie of the most invincible obstacles to a cure, that con- of tilt' other and better part of voile eitilthe slaty-to ere that ,n,l about. 350 at another, at Mile End; for whit li he tees ea a
1 unit "a anxious utteetien of the patient to his own our Is neryleyee is not abound,
,and turned into a bye nom of re. see shillings a head. Their (ie and quanutv much the same as amt..
fe dings, which leads him to notice every the least varia- prottell arming all who hate yore real and uneraenpir.4l groat:ten ! Are allowed to go out to see rater friends on Wednesdays and
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''• rion ; and that state of alarm, which anticipates dam er . Saturdays.
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the haunts and practices of those numerous impostors who inf,st
lions the most trilling Scntl.:tion. Who .are the victims The idea of makinto a new street from Cockspur-street, Of
o the streets, we find the following information:-There is one house .n
to dais deplorable liet'ody ? the idle end unoccupied, opposite Pall-mull, to St. Martin's-lane, access the Kincv's • t ii- '• k- by Mrs. M•A Iwho I' .
1., ht. .ebb, .rt a . rt iy. bas always a great number
. these who are absolved from the necessity of earning Mews, is again revived. Should this clegindile improve- of lodgers. The Rev, W. Gurney, rector ofSt. Ch•nient's Dane, an I
the free Chapel in
beingto there, remained the et-eiii• to I e
• 4 n i useful pursuit which may call forth an active exertion now beautifying„, will terminate the view eastwards from them come in to roost. He saw above forty in. There. .
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lt . sO' the powers of the mitial. 'the languor and inactivity the mull. large catiellintick stood Gn the table, conteining pieces sit rush eget;
and as tech came in. the landlady asked " sin de or do b " re
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,4 ,of each upon the ether confirms the malady of both. to Hyde Park Gate, is about to Le paved with cast iron, no douht, a fed; if they sand single, ++ faurpence," they put do a
fourpcnere whiiii she put into her seek, and then they tea a bit ot ru,h
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However trilling in our estimation may be the illness witlelt Is now preparing at a foundry in Wales, by dirge- light and went to bed.
.cif sixty individual, it is reelly an teeentially excessive tiOn of the Parish of St. George, lianover-square. Sir Daniel Williams. a magistrate of the police nflice, Wl. hitechapt
stated, that a house in Chureli-lane, Whitecliapel, Wits krnwre mint-
:fo lahu who thinks and feels it so. A grit source o f Arrangements are at least emnpleted fiat g' ti
building tl
e time ego. by the mane of the Beggar's Opens; that the beggars of
t fitilurein the treatment of this eoznplaint is the employ- Regent's-street to Portland-place. - No maghbourhood used to nsort thither in the evening ; Met they
ing ridicule and. e erision, wiser.; comfort and relief :ire A Dalin Paper of thC :led idt. recommends " Pi}- spirt a coneictemble portion of rn• ney ; had hot suppers Mr Fad, aril
regaled themstleca with beer, punch, and i ften other liquors more
lits• fur.'.The 'physician who appears it least to ton's / • •bt r ... f ' 1 • 1 1 "
snug . i 'nose e .c..ce, or
sem ming p ensurt.
' gniunt s, ex =sive.
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enter into the pairtt's view of his complaints, who, he as "superior to oily extant, as well 'in regord to streooth 1
t Mr. earre-ren Ste:engin, overseer of the poor of 5,. Pr:Nt.'s, gave n
s,.•.l.l:ittg Minuets, attracts Us *sate time*, v,.nd who h4;.1 a r • • ant.. 1 - 't*l'tv • • ) (net.''
p taro rct, (..(u..1,1 t
~ as eelseseetet ef .e. *her lime , called tee Feentain, it-. King Street, see n
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