The National Register.
London, England, 1816-04-07 00:00:00

COMIION COUNCIL.

Thnrsday, a Court of Common Council was held at Guildhall,
which was numerously otteaded.—The Niteig:ttion Committee
reported on their proceedings oil the Petition in the House of
Lords on the Southwark Bridge Bill, whereby the Company hail
entered into an agreement for making temporary 'fairs et Three
Cranes. during the time the tatter sttirs should be stopped up
by their works.—The Committee for General Purposes report.
ed, that no person should be allowed to become a candidate fur
the office of Marshal, who slanald be under 30, or exceeding 40
cars of age ; also 1... r an 41111Wallee to Mr. Bolilswiti th, who
tely resigned the office of Marshal, was read rind agreed to.—
Mr. t'eancis Nattier offered his resignation of his office of Mar-
shal, which was accepted.

A reward of 1901. is offered in Saturday's thzetle for the dis-
covery of the pieties supposed to have set lire. in the night of
the 18th ult. to two stacks of wheat belonging to Mr. ti Palmer,
of St. Leonard's Kent; with a promise of free pardon to aiiy me-
fresuplice ending such discovet y,

TIU NATIONAL ittaISTEIL_

NATIONAL RETItgATIDIENT.

tly the Returns to nn Order of the House of Com-
mons, relative to the salaries, &e. of the offices of the Se-
cretaries of State, it appears, that in the War Depart-
ment, the office of Uader Secretary of State, with a salary
of 20001. per annum, ceases this week, and that three
extra clerks, at salarieS of 1361. 17s. 6d. per annum each
arc slso suppressed.
In the Colonial Department the reductions arc, one
Clerk at a salary of ;;501. a year, one ut a 1301. one at
1201, one at 801. one at n 1361. 17s. titl. and one at 1031.
15s. The office of Precis Writcr, with a salary of 3001. a
year, is also supprcesed.
137 the return made to the House of Commons, it ap-
pears that the IVaggon Train cost for the year 1815 no
less than 157,3071. 17s. pd.
A considerable reduction, we understand, is about to
take place in most of the public offices under Government.
particularly in the Home Department. It has been al-
ready notified to several gentlemen attached to the Secre-
tary of State's Office, that their further services will be
dispensed with after this week.
Orders have been sent out for the breaking up of the
establishment called the Audit Office at Lisbon, which has
already cost the public 160,0001. The whole of this de-
partment, together with all the officers of the commis-
sariat remaining in Portugal, have been ordered to repair
to England.
The difference between the first Army Estimaies and
those now produced is 52,5641. a year in favour of the
public ; that between the first Ordnance Estimates and
the reduced ones is 176,0001. a year, on the same side ;
making two hundred and twenty-eight thousand pounds
a year saved to the public.
The telegraphs to all the sea-ports were put down on
the 23d ult .; the shutters have all been taken down, and
the houses delivered over into the charge of the lieutenant
and two men, and it may be calculated that tho discon-
tinuance of this department, in wages, stores, repairs, &c.
will cause a saving to government of between 11 and
12,0001. per annum. The Inspector of Telegraphs will
also be discontinued, and retire on a pension.
Two troops snore are to he forthwith reduced in all the
regiments of the cavalry.

FUNDED DEBT,
AS IT swop IST FFD. 18UI, r nom OFFICIAL nocumerrs.

T0t...1 Public Debt. as ori-

......._...
ginanv funded - - £1,112,413,432 • 9i
Ilea redeemed and stand•
in in the name of Coin-
missioners for the Ite-
demption of the Debt X 44094510 0 0
lleht transferred to the
Commissioners for Life
Annuities, payable at the
Hank - 5,397,3.51 0 0
Delitcancelltsl by !lectern's-
tion of Land-tax - 25,155,0% 19
Debt cancelled, and the
Fends thereof charged
with new Loans, us per
Arts 55 and .s Geo. 111.
c. Y 5, a. 3. 2.51,733,ft5R fl 0 _ _

3'20,:184,393 19 I

Debt unmlremed and due
to the Public eteditor, on
the Ist Feb. 1815 £792,:m.426 In 6
Interest on debt unredeemed. 27,253.995 L 14s !!;d.—Sums applicable
to the reduction of the National rein, 12.1,N,2251. lls
annual charge of debt, 42,149,11501. Ils nnkount of all
monies lead into the Exchequer between the Stli of January, 1815,
and the sth of January, 1106, was I v 7,1174421. lie. ro:;d. ; of
which for loans was paid, 32,421.9591. 25.; and the payments by
the Covennnent of Ireland. on account of 2-17ths of the annual ex-
penditure of the United Kingdom to be defrayed by Ireland, anno
1813 and 1814,6,107,2401 12s. sd.
FINANCIAL RESOURCES OF In ETAND.
In 1815, the capital of the funded debt of Ireland wes r27,8135.0nr1
—lnterest payable on it, s.l.,::2X(sni.—And the net revenue only
5,419,00(1—in 1816, the interest of the debt is 6,823,0001 and the
net revenue, 5,543,0001 being a deficiency of 9Fo.cxxol.
Almoot every tax has been doubled—Aw-e4,med Tuxes nearly ttipletl.
In 17w, the exports of Irish line:ai amounted to about 49,into,uvo
of vards, almost entirely to Englz.nd.
In 1815 ditto, about 59,060,860 of yards, owing to the want of capi-
tal in this country, and Silesian linens meeting them in the market.
Export of esvollens from tmarinel into Ireland materially

A phrenomenon ocenrred on Saturday, the 21d ult. between
10 and 11 O'clock, at Lambourn, Berks. .1 medical geatlemau
and his servant wt-re retarniog home, and were startled by a sod-
den and brilliant light, which rapidly crossed the heavens, from
south to north, and appeared to lose itself in the north, but not
to decline towards the earth. When the light disappeared, a
violent rumbling noise was heard from the north, and appca►ell
to diverge to the cast and west: the last sound of it was heard
in the west. like the bursting of a large canon. The noise
exceeded th ler, and continued nearly five initiates. The
h;•avens were beautifially clear and stardight. funk Ird'ore and
after thiA occuirrenee.—The pha•nonnvon Has also witnessed by
several persons in Bath. Its appearance from thence v.as that
of all immense ball of fire.

The sale of lirenses taken nut by persons occupying wands
in tin different Bazaars in town, has already produred to the
revenue upwards of 10001.
On the ult. an impteqr wig taken by James Manlier,
P.sq. one of the coroners for Derbyshire, at Ladyshaw-hint tom,
in the parish of Olossops, on the bodies of Mary, Daniel, Eli-
zabeth, and Rachel ;Wintry ; the eldest aged 13, I)aitiel and
Elizabeth (twins) 11, and Rachel 11, the children of l'eter
Bradbary, of Latlyshaw-bottom, labourer, Mho, at eight o'clock
on the aith silt. gave to each of his children a strong dose of
white arsenic, thinking it was eream of tartar; the 3 youngest
died about noon the same day, and the eldest at midnight fol-
lowing, after every elle' lion half been used, but in vain, to
counteract the foal etiects of the poison, alien the discovt•ry
was made : the Colo r had also taken a unautdy of the poison
himself aloe; atilt the children, but is expected to recover.

APRIL 7.

Zi.ttnrai Q eniter.
NUMBER VIII.

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tin; I siVl.l.lll ILIEDICALII.III HEI:BIS.-01 ID.

THE cold easterly winds which we have experience
during the preceding week, have produced their usual.
influence on the human constitution, and have not filled
to aggravate the state of disease, more especially of those
in which the lungs are at all affected. Of' these, one of
the most distressing and fittal, and one, perhaps, the least
under the controul of medical treatment, is pulmonary
consumption. The month of March is a trying season
for those who are the subjects of this complaint. It' the dis-
ease be already formed, although the symptoms of it may
have yet been scarcely noticed, its existence is rendered
more evident, and its progress considerably hestened by
the sharp winds which usually prevail at this period;
'whilst upon those, predisposed only to the disease, and in,
whom it has not vet actually commenced, the same earl-
able season operates as a powerful exciting cause, and
brings into action, the lurking seeds of this insidious
and consuming malady. The bills of mortality afford a
melancholy proof of the extensive ravages of this disease.
No less than 'bur thousand !fro hundred and Ira indivi-
duals died of consumption within the limits of the metro-
polls, during the last year, forming considerably more than
one eh of the whole number of deaths. The victims of
this disease are not usually those who have already per-
formed their part on the theatre of life, and have arrived
at an age, when they know their dismissal from this busy
scene, cannot, in the course of nature, be
.very far dis-'
wit; but it commonly infixes its harpy claws upon.
those just ripening into manhood, and for whose welfare
we had felt the most anxious solicitude, and of whose
success in life we had formed the most pleasinis and well
grounded expectations. There are few families in this
island front whom has not been torn some beloved member
by this insidious and cruel foe. A subject of deeper con-
sideration can scarcely, therefiire, be proposed, thins
whether there exists a possibility of opposing the ranges
of this destructive disease, and what are the means to be
adopted fbr lessening the number of its victims. The
ultimate effects of this disease, it is well known, are thee
partial or complete destruction of the structure of the
lungs, an organ so important to life, that its functions
cannot be supplied by any resource within the powers ef
the animal system. In many other ease, if en organ is
injured or destroyed, nature accommodates herself to that
deprivation, or supplies its functions by some other con-
trivance. No such thing takes place here; the lungs arc
so essential to life, that an affection of them, to a certain
extent is necessarily fatal. Our enquiries, then, should
be directed to the earliest period of the disease, our en-
deavours, indeed; should be pe •entive rather than cura-
tive. Let us first turn our attention to the predispcsition;
this may be either hereditary or acquired, may he the
result of bodily formation, or purely accidental. The
hereditary predirpesitien consists in the transmission,
from parent to child, of a certain contaminated state of
the blood or humours ", among the chief of which is a
scrophulous diathesis ; so that, according to circum-
stances, not necessary here to enter into, this state of the
' constitution :Id' either show itself in affections of' the
skin or joints, at an early stage cf life, or in consumption
of the lungs at a later period. The acquired predisp-
sition is the result of mismanagement during childhcod,
or the consequence of irregularities during early youth,
whereby such a permanent state of debility in the whole
system, and the lungs in. particular, is produced, as ren-
ders then, cusceptible of being acted upon by the slight-
est causes of disease. The predisposition of confinum-
tion consists in the shape and arrangement of the luny
structure of the human frame, whereby the lungs are
impeded in their growth and expansion, and arc prevent-
ed from acquiring that state of form and strength which
coustitutes perfect health. The accidental ,
as predispositionleuris;
is produced by former diseases of the hogs
and asthma, which 1)y some change of structure, such as
the fommtion of tubercles, consequent cre inflammation,
or by the healing of small abscesses in the substance of
that organ, render them more liable to future attacks of
disease. Although sufficiently distinct in their nature,
two or more of these s - des of predisposition may he
combined in the sante subject, and the danger of such a
person must of course be proportionate to the intensity
of the cause of disease. An infimt, deriving a contami-
nated state of the fluids from one or I'oth parents, may
in the present fashionable maternal indifference for their
offspring, in consequent% of the neglect ur mismanage.
ment of some hireling nure, superudd the acquired
predisposition to the hereditary one, and thus kuve its
chance of suviving to manhood, small indeed. To coun-
teract the operation of these various predispesitions,
single or combined; is •an arduous task, and requires
both resolution and perseverance ; of the methods Lest
adapted to attain so desirable an object, and of the
means to be pursued by those who are really desirous to
edict it, the MONITOR will, perhaps, speuk at a future
cpportunity. 6.

• It 15 the fashion now in the medical world to rid role the
homonti ratholt :it i• 1.4 r easier tt. I. • then to comic).
sett the troths of be ductrme. It is unquestionahlt however.
that al4 edtspost.t oro elinmi.. . ..• trot matt d hum
parent to chitd,iu whatert r way we suppose this Wilt 1:1:11:il:d.

APIUt 7.