The National Register.
London, England, 1816-03-17 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL ttGISTER.

mittec was then put off to the next day ; and when it
was received on Friday, the third reading of the Bill
VATS postponed to Thursday next, three days after the fate
of the Property Tax shall have been sealed. It is on these
grounds, and we trust we have shown that they were
more than mere speculations, that we found the expec-
tations we now hold out to the public. The nation, we
now believe, will have her wish. May it turn to her
advanta„•e; and may the gratification of her feelings be
attended with the removal of her temporary distresses,
and the enjoyment in uninterrupted felicity of that
1 verior glory and power, which her own exertions and
the blessings of I leaven have bestowed upon her, the
favoured amongst the nations of the earth.

'IIIE NATIONAL REGISTER.

LONDON :
SUND.4I", MARCH 17•

We have received the Paris Papers of Monday and
Tuesday lust, and Brussels Journals to the lvtli instant.
Our Readers all know that about two millions of inha-
bitants of the left bank of the Rhine had been placed
under the Prussian sceptre. This arrangement was
made partly on the plea of general convenience, and
partly from the alledged necessity of indemnifying Prus-
sia for her losses, and remunerating her thr her services.
We are now infimed, in an article from Brussels, sup-
ported by accounts of an analagous hearing from other
places, that those provinces have been ceded by the King
of Prussia to the Emperor Alexander; who, it' report be
true, gives the provinces, on the left bank of the Rhine,
as a marriage gill to his sister, who has married the
Prince of Orange.
It is said, that the Empress Maria Louisa, in conse-
quence of the pressing solicitations of ,her fixther, will
proceed immediately to Venice, to asattme the Govern-
ment of Parma, Placentia, and Guastella. All the
French who were in her suite, haul been previously dis-
missed. I-Icr son does not accompuly her, but remains
in Vinna, under the care and superintendance of the
At: •trian iovernmz nt.

There is a long circular letter in these papers from the
Minister of the Interior, M. de N'aublanc, to the Pre-
fects, in which he notices the alarming reports and ma-
meuvres of various kinds which the disaffected employ to
agitute the public mind.

American Papers are arrived to the 14th ult. The
late official and warlike communications between the
Spanish Amllassador and the American Government
have been ibilowed by the departure of his Excellency
the Chevalier de Onis from the United States.

The Commercial Treaty between this country and
America is already acted upon on the part of the United
States. A British vessel is named which had arrived, and
under these new regulations paid only 100 dollars instead
of 950. The extra duties taken subsequent to the 22d
December ftom British vessels, arc in such cases ordered
to be returned.

The House Of Commons on Friday went into a Cmn-
mittee, to consider the Message of the Prince Regent, on
the approaching marriage of the Princess Charlotte of
\Vales with Prince Leopold of Saxe-Colxiurg. The sum
of tio,oool. a year has been proposed as a suitable pro-
vision for the illustrious persons, and we are sure that
there i► not a single individual in the country that will
say that it is too much for the occasion. 1t is truly gra-
tifying to hear the flattering manner in which the cha-
racter of the young Prince is mentioned by persons who
have the best information on the subject.
. _

The Bank hare agreed to extend the redemption of
:;0 per cent on the Omnium, from the 2(ith April to the
17th May ; and the 40 per cent. redemption from the
10th May to the Nth July.
The Kentish Bank, at Maidstone, of Messrs. Penfuld
and Co. stopped payment Thursday se'nnight.
Gibbons and Co.'s Wolverhampton Bank stopped pay-
ment on Monday. _ _

JOHN CuntsriAN CuitwEN, Esq. having gained his
election for Carlisle, he was on Saturday chaired round
the streets of the city, and never was there at any former
period more lively or more enthusiastic expressions of
esteem paid to a %presentative, than was witnessed on
this occasion.

Lady Wilson left Paris on the 7th, for the purpose of
presenting a representation to the Regent upon the
proceedings against Sir H. Wilson. Our Government,
it is said, have instructed our Ambassador to air.tain
from all official interference in the proceedings of the
French Tribunal.
We nuclei stand that engineers, millwrights, boot and shoe-
makers, (70;1(.11.m:hers, saddlers, harness-makers, ostlers, sX:e.
may gala opwaras of to per cent. by CallAilitt an application u f
the Royal Palen! Anti Attrition, told as No. -10,Churing Cross,
to be used for the various pm-poses for which it hal bee!,
proved to he so highly beneficial, whilst the Proprietors of
Works, oho nse this min* for prevent the effects of fric-
tion upon steam engines, machiner, catriipeec. es:c. or those
who Ilse it to render boots and shoes, or any kind of leather,
.• Water Proof.- save from 300 to ROM per cent. besides no-
: 'ileums other Rd vinddgeY, such as cleanliness, saving, wear and
tear, time and labour, 'cc. is; a.

MARCH 17.

Cbc o.sebical ceonitor.

NUNIIII7.II V.

PALO! Forum SUPREMA E3T

RHEUMATIC allialions still occupy a prominent
station in the numerical list of complaints, which present
themselves to medical observation. The disease has not
only appeared in its distinct and proper form of acute
rheumatism, attended with swelling and rigidity of the
different joints of the body, but has also shown itself in
various painful affections of the muscular structure. The
Ace-aeh has been universally prevalent; which, although
apparently a disease of no great importance, occasions,
nevertheless, a considerable degree of pain and distress.
The surest means of relief consist in the application of
blisters in the neighbourhood of the afteeted part ; which,
by promoting a copious discharge, take off that tension of
the vessels which either causes or aggravates the mm-
plaint. The sensibility of the part appears also to be.
morbidly increased to a considerable dcgrco,—a circum-
stance which indicates the use of opium or other nar-
cotics, after due evacuations have been obtained from the.
system by appropriate medicines. The acute rheumatism,
when it exists with great severity, is very apt, after the.
geoend constitutional affection has subsided, and the in-
creased action of the vessels has diminished, to be sue-.
messled by chronic rheumatism, often a tedious and pain-
till complaint. 'Ellis effect is also more likely to take
place, when the disease, during its acute state, has twen
improperly treated. It has commonly a very great dis-
position to shift its points of attack, and oftentimes spoil.,
taneously quits its present residence, to take up its abode
in a new quarter. The, relief, therefore, experienced in
a pained limb, is often fallacious; and when obtained by
the local application of liniments and lotions, is sometimes
purchased at the hazard of repelling the distsme, to some.
internal, perhaps vital, part. Au important fact has
lately etwaged the attention of pathologista, which scents
previously to have escaped observation. Several cases of
• sudden death, attributed by ordinary lookers-on to apt-
plexy, have been found to originate in a severe and sud-
den rheumatic affection of the heart ; the muscular fibrtst
of which, having been rendered incapable of pet-tin-min
their clue contraction, the circulation has been stopped,
and death consequently ensued. It is probable, that a
similar event would take place from an extensive affection
of the diaphragm, the muscle which divides the cavity. of
the thorax or chest, front the abdomen ; as respiration
principally depends upon the motion of that muscle for
its regular performance ; and without respiration, wo
know life could not long subsist. In all the fatal in-
stances of rheumatism of the heart, hitherto observed, the
patient had previously been subject to the external dis-
ease, viz. the atrection of the muscles or joints. This
fact, of the retrocession of the disease ought to make us
extremely cautious in the employment of topical rem:-
dies; and shows the impropriety of seeking temporary
ease by the use of WurrEtEsn's Essence of Mustard,
or other advertised nostrums, at the probable expense of
inducing an unhooked fiir and fatal termination. I can-
not be understood to forbid all topical applications in
rheumatic affections ; on the contrary, when judiciously
employed, especially in the latter gages of the chronic
complaint, they are highly useful. It is the misappli-
cation of them only I would guard against ; and in many
cases I would recommend the sufferers under this corn-
plaint, rather

" To bear those ills they Lave,
" Than fly to others that they know not of."

One consolation it is in my power to offer them : It not
unfrequently happens, that those persons, who are habi-
tually subject to rheumatic affections, enjoy, in other re-
spects, a good state of health ; the natural and vital fenc-
tions are regularly and duly perfianned ; and such persons
are exempt tiont those stomach and bilious complaints
which so much annoy many others; an exemption proba-
bly purchased by the liability to rheumatism, and to con-
tinue no longer than the prevalence of that affection.
Among the curative means recommended in rheumatism,
one may be mentioned, which can, at least, be practised
without danger, and is said to have been eminently ser-
viceable. It was suggested, and adopted by a gentleman,
not of the medical profession, who, in consequence of
having learned that a celebrated race-horse at Newmar-
ket had been cured of a disorder which had all the symp-
toms of rheumatism, by swotting in 1)1)4-clothes, after
every other remedy had foiled, attempted his own cure
by similar means. The method proved completely suc-
cessful : on the first attempt, this gentleman could, with
great difficulty, and in considerable pain, proceed half-a.
mile; every succeeding walk Bimini, fed his sufferings ;
and after the sixth, he was as free from pain as he had
ever been in his life. The recital of this ease is interest.
ing anti curious, and will appear, in our next number,
in the patient's own words, as extracted from the Sd
of the Medico-Chirurgical Transactions.
The attention of the public, no less than that of tho
faculty, is directed to the measures about to be adopted
by Parliament for the regulation of Mad-houses. This
is a serious and important question; and the desire shewn
by the promoters of the plan,.to ameliorate the lot of thus
unfortunate tenants of these abodes, is highly laudable.
The few comforts which it is in the power of the melan-
choly victims of insanity to enjoy, ought surely to be al►

mAintli rt.

lowed to them; and it atfbrds a consolatory prospect, that
the severe and harsh treatment, to which, in general,
they have been hitherto subject, will in future be dis-
continued. The facility also of shutting up in those re-
cepticles, persons not really insane, will be diminished
by the measures of strict visitation about to be adopted.
There is reason to think that these establishments have
sometimes been perverted to the most iniquitous pur-
poses. G.

OFFICIAL COPY or MR. !CENTER N's PROPOSER RE.
SOLUTIONS FOll THE RELIEF OF .1a ItICULrunAL
DISTRESS.

I. That the prtion of the community, whose capita!, are engaged in
agr'eulture, as well as those numemu elasies whose employment de-
pends thereon, are at present suffering under the pressure ut unexam-
pled distress.
2. 'fliat the continuance of such distress is fraught with extreme
danger to the most important interegs of the country.
1. That the demand for the extended pnaluce of our agriculture is,
at this time, iniutficient to produce that price which is Oeleessary to
cover the heavy charges and burthens upon it.
•t. That the demand for barley has been very materially reduced, by
the carestive ditties to which it i subjected, in the course of the various
operations which adapt it to the 1142 of the consumer.
5. 'That the continuance of those duties, during peace, when the fa-
cility of smuggling is so Much increased, cannot fail to injure the
horn• manufacture of spirits, which must still further diminish the de-
Immd litr barley.
6. That it is therefore necessary to reduce the duties on malt, beer.
and spirits.
7. That is nrler to equalize the supply. of grain, and promote its cul-
tivation, it is desirable that an appropnatton should he made from the
extra, produce of abundant harvests, to supply the deficiency of seasons
less favourable.

& That the admission of foreign corn to be warehoused prevents such
application of our own oemsional abundance, and assigns to foreign
agriculture the formation of those stores, which might otherwise be
created from the produce of our awn.
9. That it is tl. a-. lire expedient to repeal so much of an ect of last
session for the regilation of the corn t:sde, as permits the warehousing
of forign corn, at all times, d tty fr. e.
to. 'Chat m order further to promote the appropriation of a part of
our present abundance, and reserve it for future consumption. it is ex-
psiiint to aid the iileans of tbo:,.. individuals who may be di:posed so
ti emir:oy their capitals, by an advance of Exchequer bills to a limitod
amount.

11. That excessive taxation renders it necessary to rive pmtection to
all articles. the produce of our own soil. against similar articles. the
rmwt,t of foreign countri..s, not subject to the same burthens, and, in
c otfonnity with that piAi •y, which has been nnithrntly• observed, of
prat. -tin; by daties, and encouraging by bounties or drawbacks, all
oar other manufactures.

le. That it is therefore expedd...t to impose additional duties and
restrictioni on the importation of all artidea th produce of foreign agri.
culture.

13. That it is evpeclient, under due limitation. to enemtrage, by
bounty or drawback, the exportation of the redundant produce of the
agriculture of the united kingdom.
14. That the tithe and the poor rates. to the payment of which those
whose capitals are engaged in agriculture are almost exclusively sub-
jected, have recently been lilt with ilicror•ing and unexampled severity.
and that it is therefore necessary to relieve tuew, as far as possible, titan
the operation of other burdens.

On Saturday se'nnight, Captain Manby exhibited to
the Commisioncrs tin. the Affitirs of Barracks an efficaci-
ous method for the extinction of fire in storehouses and
other buildings, in which its pregress is always rapidly
destructive. It enables the person who discovers the
fire to proceed at once to extinguish it, by a machine,
which he may easily carry by hand, charged with a fluid
so strongly impregnated with antiphlogistie ingredients,
as instantly to quench, wherever it tails, the fiercest
combustion. The quantity of fluid thus impregnated,
contained in the machine, will, before the force with
which it is projected is at all diminished, effect as much
towards extinction as 120 gallons of simple water, how-
erer well directed by any other means. A case contain-
ing two more such machines, ready charge 3, and resor-
voirs of the fluid fur recharging all three, constitute the
complete apparatus. Its merits are, that it is always
ready for instantaneous application; that it may be car-
ried by only one person to any part of the building, and
directed to the most intricate recesses of the incipient
tire; and that it offers, in u box 1 foot deep, 2 wide, and
less than 3 long, means of extinguishment equal to a
quantity of 790 gallons of water applied by any other
mode at present in use.

Ltwgq Et.r.rooN, MA Tull 13.---IVednefulay morning the
Election was cloNed for this Borough. The numbers were de-
clared by the returning Officer to he--
For Sir Joh. Shelley
For Mr. Sent-lett

'fhe sham Capt. Wallace. mill his associate, Fred. Andrew.,
fur the apprehens'on of whont warrants are issued, for being
eoneerned in a conspiracy and ilefraitil of the late MT. C.
Bradburne, a sugar-refiner, of Whitychapcl, of the suns of
which was the cause or the ❑ntitrhnntte art he committed
upon we are credibly informed, have arrived at Paris.
An Officer of the Navy be.ll, asked what lit.. ColleeiVCti Mr.
Burke meant by the '• cheap defence of nations r- replica.
that he thought lie alluded to Midshipman's half-pay —uuthimg
'lay, an•! find yarrs,lf. -
'h.• late J. Downer, Esq. of Altlermaithurv, who possessed
considerable propel ty at Brighton, has HI a lima for the maits-
trim-ince. (loathing, and education of 2a girls ; and fur provid-
ing old men with a new >nit of eluatl.s every year.
Oa satorday an Inquisition was taken nt the sign of the Ba-
ker and Basket, in Worship-street. on !Mrs. Mary Walker, who,
on Friday last, WAS 11.11101 g out clothe• to dry on :1 line, at her
lodgings, in Long-alley, and over reaching herself, fell from the
wMilow opals the pavement, and was killed on the spol.--Ver-
dict—Accidental Death.

Oil Saturday se'unialit, between seven and eicht o'clock in
the evening, a dre.ultiel tire broke out at Mr. %Vaterhouse's
stables, at Smith Mims. A largestalilr, in which were t %veiny-
six horses, and all the 11111i1(111110 011 the same side of the pre-
mises, speedily fell a prey to the devouring element. The
hone% above nn•atiuurd, and those un the oppo.ite side of the
tre:oises, were in ountlper about 70, which, we are happy to
say, through the ekertions u( Mr. J. ‘Vaterhoitie and the fore-
man, Win. Drover, were extricated from the flames, and turn-
ed loose into the fields.

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